Casualties From PNG’s Landslide Remain Buried Under Rubble

Little progress is being made in recovering bodies from a huge landslide that has engulfed villages in the remote Enga province of Papua New Guinea. Efforts to recover bodies are being hampered by smaller landslides that continue to occur. The disaster happened about 600 kilometres (372 miles) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, at approximately 3 a.m. local time on May 24, leaving debris that humanitarian workers say cover an area the size of four football fields. More than 150 houses were buried, and the country’s National Disaster Center said almost 2,000 were feared dead. International and PNG government rescue efforts have struggled to reach such a remote part of the country, leaving villagers with no option but to dig through the collapsed mountainside with whatever tools they had....