A gigantic avalanche of earth and rocks has buried dozens of houses in a remote village in the north of the country.
The powerful land avalanche that struck and buried a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea this morning buried at least 300 people in the country on Saturday, according to local media.
Although there are still no official sources due to the difficult access to the place and the precarious communications in the country, the local newspaper Post courier quotes parliamentarian Aimos Aken, who offered that number of victims and asked the government for help in the rescue efforts.
Rescue teams search against the clock for survivors. Australian NGO Australia Care, present in Papua New Guinea, said in a statement that authorities in Enga province have deployed a team to the town of Kaokalam, about 600 kilometers northwest of the capital Port Moresby, where the catastrophe occurred .
About 4,000 people live in the area. Much of Kaokalam village was buried under a layer of between six and eight meters of rocks and stones and the avalanche affected an area of more than 200 square kilometers, including about 150 kilometers of the province’s main highway. which complicates rescue efforts and assistance to survivors.
Source: EITB
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