Six villages in Mulitaka, in Enga province’s Porgera-Paiela district, were covered in disaster
Hundreds of people are feared to have died after a landslide in a remote region in northern Papua New Guinea, as emergency teams rushed to the area.
Enga’s provincial administrator, Sandis Tsaka, said emergency response teams had been sent to the area, including disaster, police and health workers as the extent of the damaged was assessed.
Pictures posted to social media in Enga, about 600km north of the South Pacific island nation’s capital, Port Moresby, showed residents scaling huge rocks, scattered among tree trunks, and debris left by the landslide. Elizabeth Laruman, who runs a business in the local area, told Australian media that village houses were flattened when the side of a mountain gave way.“It has occurred when people were still asleep in the early hours, and the entire village has gone down,” she told the ABC. “From what I can presume, it’s about 100-plus people who are buried beneath the ground.”
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