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UN warns of ‘significant’ disease risk after Papua New Guinea landslide

Aid agencies and foreign donors are concerned that unreliable estimates about the number of dead, injured and displaced are complicating the international response following the disaster [File: Australian Defence Force via AFP]

Papua New Guinea has ruled out finding more survivors under the rubble of last week’s massive landslide, as a UN agency warned of a “significant risk of disease outbreak” among displaced residents, who are yet to receive sufficient supplies of food and clean water.

Six days after a mountainside community in Enga province was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations’ migration agency (IOM) said on Thursday that water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring.

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