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Rescuers search rubble after over 300 buried in Papua New Guinea landslide

The disaster hit Kaokalam village in Enga province early on Friday morning when many villagers were at home asleep, according to government officials [Benjamin Sipa/International Organization for Migration/AFP]

Rescue teams have arrived at the site of an enormous landslide in Papua New Guinea‘s remote highlands, helping villagers search for hundreds of people feared dead under towering mounds of rubble and mud.

“At this time, we are still searching for bodies who are buried by the massive landslide,” community leader Mark Ipuia told Reuters news agency on Saturday, adding that “more than 300” villagers may be entombed.

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