Papua New Guinea evacuating landslide villages as hopes for survivors fade

Search efforts at the site of the landslide [UNDP via AFP]

Hopes are fading that an estimated 2,000 people buried by a landslide in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province will be found alive, a United Nations official has said.

“It is not a rescue mission, it is a recovery mission,” UNICEF Papua New Guinea’s Niels Kraaier said. “It is very unlikely they will have survived.”