Papua New Guinea informed the UN that more than 2,000 people were buried in a massive landslide that swept over a remote village, according to a copy of the letter obtained by AFP news agency. “The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction,” the country’s national disaster centre told the UN office in the capital Port Moresby.

 

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