Papua New Guinea landslide buries over 2,000 people

A Papua New Guinea government official has reached out to the United Nations, indicating that over 2,000 individuals are believed to have been buried alive in the recent landslide by Friday. 

This number starkly contrasts with the U.N.’s estimate of 670 fatalities from the disaster in the mountainous interior of the South Pacific island nation. So far, only the remains of six people have been recovered.

In a communication addressed to the United Nations resident coordinator and dated Sunday, Luseta Laso Mana, the acting director of Papua New Guinea’s National Disaster Center, described the landslide’s devastating impact on Yambali village in the Enga province, noting that it had…