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People gather at the site of a landslide in Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 24, 2024. Local officials and aid groups said a massive landslide struck a village in Papua New Guinea's highlands on May 24, with many feared dead. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea—A massive landslide struck remote villages in Papua New Guinea’s highlands Friday, with many homes buried and scores of residents feared dead.
He later said “six villages” had been affected and described it as an “unprecedented natural disaster.” Images showed a scene of total devastation, with a vast bite of earth cleaved from densely vegetated Mount Mungalo. Dozens of local men and women scrambled over the piles of rock and soil, digging, crying out, listening for survivors or scanning the scene in disbelief.
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