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UN: More than 670 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide

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People cross over the landslide area to get to the other side in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, May 24, 2024. [AP Photo]

The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N. migration agency's mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll was based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been buried by Friday's landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.

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