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In this photo provided by the UNDP Papua New Guinea, villagers carry a coffin
during a funeral procession in Yambali village in the Highlands of Papua New …
In this photo provided by the UNDP Papua New Guinea, villagers carry a coffin
during a funeral procession in Yambali village in the Highlands of Papua New
Guinea, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration
feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what
authorities initially estimated. (Kafuri Yaro/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP) Read
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OVER 670 PEOPLE DIED IN A MASSIVE PAPUA NEW GUINEA LANDSLIDE, UN ESTIMATES, AS
SURVIVORS SEEK SAFETY
by: ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press
Posted: May 26, 2024 / 05:41 AM PDT
Updated: May 26, 2024 / 05:46 AM PDT
In this photo provided by the UNDP Papua New Guinea, villagers carry a coffin
during a funeral procession in Yambali village in the Highlands of Papua New
Guinea, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The International Organization for Migration
feared Sunday the death toll from a massive landslide is much worse than what
authorities initially estimated. (Kafuri Yaro/UNDP Papua New Guinea via AP)
by: ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press
Posted: May 26, 2024 / 05:41 AM PDT
Updated: May 26, 2024 / 05:46 AM PDT
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The International Organization for Migration on
Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in
Papua New Guinea to more than 670 as emergency responders and traumatized
relatives gave up hope that any survivors will now be found.
Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency’s mission in the South
Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll was based on calculations by
Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been
buried by Friday’s landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.
“They are estimating that more than 670 people (are) under the soil at the
moment,” Aktoprak told The Associated Press.
Local officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only
five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered by Sunday, when an
excavator donated by a local builder became the first piece of mechanical
earth-moving equipment to join the recovery effort.
Relief crews were moving survivors to safer ground on Sunday as tons of unstable
earth and tribal warfare, which is rife in the Papua New Guinea Highlands,
threatened the rescue effort.
Around 250 additional houses have been condemned since the landslide because of
still-shifting ground, leaving an estimated 1,250 people homeless, officials
said.
The national government meanwhile is considering whether it needs to officially
request more international support.
Crews have given up hope of finding survivors under earth and rubble 6 to 8
meters (20 to 26 feet) deep.
“People are coming to terms with this so there is a serious level of grieving
and mourning,” Aktoprak said.
He said the new estimated death toll was “not solid” because it was based on the
average size of the region’s families per household. He would not speculate on
the possibility that the actual toll could be higher.
“It is difficult to say. We want to be quite realistic,” Aktoprak said. “We do
not want to come up with any figures that would inflate the reality.”
Government authorities were establishing evacuation centers on safer ground on
either side of the massive swath of debris that covers an area the size of three
to four football fields and has cut the main highway through the province.
Beside the blocked highway, convoys that have transported food, water and other
essential supplies since Saturday to the devastated village 60 kilometers (35
miles) from the provincial capital, Wabag, have faced risks related to tribal
fighting in Tambitanis village, about halfway along the route. Papua New Guinea
soldiers were providing security for the convoys.
Eight locals were killed in a clash between two rival clans on Saturday in a
longstanding dispute unrelated to the landslide. Around 30 homes and five retail
businesses were burned down in the fighting, local officials said.
Aktoprak said he did not expect tribal combatants would target the convoys but
noted that opportunistic criminals might take advantage of the mayhem to do so.
“This could basically end up in carjacking or robbery,” Aktoprak said. “There is
not only concern for the safety and security of the personnel, but also the
goods because they may use this chaos as a means to steal.”
Longtime tribal warfare has cast doubt on the official estimate that almost
4,000 people were living in the village when a side of Mount Mungalo fell away.
The count was years old and did not take into account people who had relocated
to the village more recently to flee clan violence that authorities are unable
to contain.
Local authorities on Sunday accepted the village population had been
substantially more than 4,000 people when the limestone mountainside sheared
away, but a revised estimate was not yet available.
Justine McMahon, country director of the humanitarian agency CARE International,
said moving survivors to “more stable ground” was an immediate priority along
with providing them with food, water and shelter. The military was leading those
efforts.
The numbers of injured and missing were still being assessed on Sunday. Seven
people including a child had received medical treatment by Saturday, but
officials had no details on their conditions.
Papua New Guinea Defense Minister Billy Joseph and the government’s National
Disaster Center director Laso Mana were flying from Port Moresby by helicopter
to Wabag on Sunday to gain a firsthand perspective of what is needed.
Aktoprak expected the government would decide by Tuesday whether it would
officially request more international help.
The United States and Australia, a near neighbor and Papua New Guinea’s most
generous provider of foreign aid, are among governments that have publicly
stated their readiness to do more to help responders.
Papua New Guinea is a diverse, developing nation with 800 languages and 10
million people who are mostly subsistence farmers.
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