Landslide Buries More Than 2,000 People
A Papua New Guinea government representative has informed the United Nations that an estimated 2,000 individuals are feared to have perished in a recent landslide, a figure that is three times higher than the UN’s initial estimate of 670 fatalities. The government has officially requested international assistance in the wake of the disaster. The landslide, which occurred in the mountainous interior of the South Pacific island nation, has so far yielded only five recovered bodies, …