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About 700 dead in a Papua New Guinea landslide, U.N. estimates

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About 670 people — many of whom are feared to be children — are assumed dead after a landslide deluged several villages in Papua New Guinea on Friday, according to the U.N. International Organization for Migration.

Local officials extrapolated the estimate based on the number of homes — more than 150 — that were buried in the northern Enga province, said Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency’s mission to the Pacific nation north of Australia.



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