Melbourne, Australia – Over 670 people died, as estimated by the International Organization for Migration, after a huge landslide hit the Papua New Guinea last Friday, May 24.
According to the authorities, approximately 250 more houses have been condemned due to ongoing ground shifts since the landslide, leaving an estimated 1,250 people homeless.
The landslide incident took place in a village of Kaokalam, which left the area as large as four football fields.
Officials from Yambali village and Enga province calculated the latest death toll and found that more than 150 dwellings had been submerged by Friday’s landslide.
Meanwhile, tribal conflict is common in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, and on Sunday, relief workers and government officials were relocating survivors to safer ground as a threat to the rescue operation came from tons of unstable earth.