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Papua New Guinea: Warning of fresh landslide and disease at disaster site amid desperate search for survivors

Authorities on Tuesday warned a second landslide and a disease outbreak could hit the site of a mountainside collapse where more than 2,000 people are feared dead in Papua New Guinea.

Waterways could be at risk of contamination from debris and the rotting corpses of those that remain in the rubble from the landslide that devastated Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands on Friday.

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