Hundreds killed after landslide flattens remote Papua New Guinea village

Hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide levelled dozens of homes in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea early on 24 May, according to a local resident.
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The prime minister, James Marape, said authorities were responding and that he would release information about the destruction and loss of life when it was available.

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40 comments

  4. Png gov now own around 50 % of Porgera goldmine nearby that had to reduce its ownership from canadian and chinese interests in order to get the permits to reopen early this year.
    Was any further exploration/ mining being done on or under that mountain recently?

  21. One thing is a bit weird. When you look at the Location of the Landslide on satellite Images, there are only around 5 Houses and the Landslide itself isn't that big. How is it possible that so many People are burried? Also they talk about the entire Villages destroyed but there are only a few houses and only forest. Did i miss something or can Someone explain it?

  22. Google Earth these pre-landslide coordinates and tell me if you think 5,000 people lived here: 5°22′26″S 143°23′19″E
    It looks extremely rural and sparsely populated for the death toll to be that high.

  24. Thousands yet no mainstream reports and such less views, please remember community is small and a big impact, one of the most unique and isolated, oldest indigenous of any region, also not fair to divide island in the middle in a straight line, in lndonesia daily targeting and its trees being chopped too.

  32. The village must have only been established only a fairly short time ago as I came across a satellite image of the mountain after the landslide, however I managed to find another satellite image of the exact location before the incident and the whole area appeared to be almost completely uninhabited at the time. I read somewhere that the village acted as a base camp for miners in the area or something, hence the seemingly unusually high death toll.

  35. I call major BS on any claims of mre than 20 or so dead. You dont need to be a galaxy brain to take one look at the population density here to realise estimates of 670 to 2000 are preposterous.

  36. Strange: According to Google Earth and Google Maps, however, virtually no houses, huts, paths or dwellings can be recognized on the aerial photographs of the disaster area … so where should the high number of victims come from? 🤔

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