The number of people buried alive by a devastating landslide that struck Papua New Guinea on Friday has tripled to more than 2,000, according to the latest figures by the government as fears grow ...
MELBOURNE--A Papua New Guinea government official has told the United Nations that more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive by last Friday’s landslide and has formally ...
A deadly landslide which villagers in Papua New Guinea say struck like "an exploding bomb" may have buried more than 2,000 people alive, a government agency fears. The figure - provided by the ...
A massive landslide is feared to have killed hundreds of people after it struck remote villages in Papua New Guinea, local officials and aid agencies said. The landslide buried more than 100 homes ...
The estimated death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea has soared to more than 670. Serhan Aktoprak, chief of the UN migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation ...
A massive landslide is feared to have killed many after it struck six remote villages in Papua New Guinea, local officials and aid agencies said. The landslide buried more than 100 homes after it ...
Papua New Guinea is undergoing economic and social transformation. It is one of the most diverse countries in the world; home to over 11.78 million people and more than 800 different languages spoken ...
A police official says days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous ... rubble from a massive landslide on May 24. The national government estimates more than 2,000 villagers ...
Papua New Guinea Landslide: Over 2,000 Buried Under Rubble, Government Says The Papua New Guinea government’s latest numbers are more than triple the U.N.’s estimated death toll from the disaster.
including the landslide last Friday. The people of Bougainville, an autonomous region in eastern Papua New Guinea (PNG), have aspired to self-government for more than a century. Now their longed-for ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A New Zealand pilot held hostage for more than a year in ... easternmost region of Papua, a former Dutch colony in the western part of New Guinea that is ethnically ...