Papua New Guinea says more than 2,000 people buried in landslide

The once-bustling hillside community in Enga province was almost wiped out when a chunk of Mount Mungalo collapsed early Friday morning, smothering scores of homes and the people sleeping inside them.

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People dig through debris at the site of a landslide in Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka, in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea on May 27, 2024. More than 2,000 people are feared buried in a Papua New Guinea landslide that destroyed a remote highland village, the government said on May 27, as it pleaded for international help in the rescue effort. (Photo by Emmanuel ERALIA / AFP)