Emergency teams pulled three bodies from the rubble of Papua New Guinea's massive landslide, the UN said, warning the death toll would likely rise in the disaster where hundreds are feared dead.
Emergency teams pulled three bodies from the rubble of Papua New Guinea 's massive landslide, the UN said, warning the death toll would likely rise in the disaster where hundreds are feared dead.
The three bodies were retrieved from an area where 50 to 60 homes had been destroyed, while six people, including a child, were pulled from rubble alive, the UN's Papua New Guinea office said in a statement. At least 26 men were killed in Enga Province in February in an ambush amid tribal violence that prompted Prime Minister James Marape to give arrest powers to the country's military.
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