More than 670 people feared dead after Papua New Guinea landslide, UN says ...Egypt

CNN  —  More than 670 people are feared dead following a devastating landslide in a remote region in northern Papua New Guinea, a UN official said, as rescuers continue to scramble to find survivors. More than 150 houses in Yambali village are buried in debris, Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the country Serhan Aktoprak said on Sunday. The new estimate is a sharp increase from earlier in the week, when the UN initially said it believed more than 100 people had died. The population of the village was first reported to be about 4,000 people, but new estimates found the actual number of residents to be much higher, Aktoprak added. More than 250 houses

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