{"id":427759,"date":"2024-05-25T08:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=427759"},"modified":"2024-05-25T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T03:56:20","slug":"more-than-300-buried-in-papua-new-guinea-landslide-local-media-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/more-than-300-buried-in-papua-new-guinea-landslide-local-media-says\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 300 buried in Papua New Guinea landslide, local media says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">SYDNEY, May 25 (SONNA) &#8211; More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Hundreds are feared dead in the landslide that hit Kaokalam village in Enga Province, about 600 km (370 miles) northwest of capital Port Moresby, around 3 a.m. on Friday (1900 GMT on Thursday).<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\nThe landslide in the Pacific nation north of Australia buried more than 300 people and 1,182 houses, the Papua New Guinea Post Courier said, citing comments from a member of the country&#8217;s parliament, Aimos Akem. Akem did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment via social media.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-2\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">More than six villages had been impacted by the landslide in the province&#8217;s Mulitaka region, Australia&#8217;s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">&#8220;Australia\u2019s High Commission in Port Moresby is in close contact with PNG authorities for further assessments on the extent of the damage and casualties,&#8221; a DFAT spokesperson said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">\nThe Australian Broadcasting Corp reported on Saturday that four bodies had been retrieved from the area after emergency teams reached the sparsely populated area, where the death toll is expected to rise.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-5\"><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-5\"><em><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, May 25 (SONNA) &#8211; More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday. Hundreds are feared dead in the landslide that hit Kaokalam village in Enga Province, about 600 km (370 miles) northwest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":427760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-427759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427761,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427759\/revisions\/427761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}