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Fears over second landslide and disease outbreak at site of Papua New Guinea disaster
By AP News
Published - May 28, 2024, 02:30 AM ET
Last Updated - May 28, 2024, 02:30 AM EDT
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris that swept over a village, a United Nations official said Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away Friday.