Papua New Guinea: More than 4,000 people impacted by landslide


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More than 4,000 people have been impacted, and hundreds feared dead, by a massive landslide that flattened a village in northern Papua New Guinea on Friday. The landslide hit the Pacific nation at around 3am local time on Friday (7pm on Thursday UK time) and levelled the mountainous Kaokalam village in Enga Province - about 370 miles (600km) northwest of the capital Port Moresby. The United Nations said on Sunday that three bodies had been retrieved from an area where 50 to 60 homes had been destroyed, and warned that the death toll would likely rise. Image: A damaged house...