Death roll rises to 670 after massive landslide devastates village in Papua New Guinea
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.
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00:00 The death toll has risen to 670 after a deadly landslide devastated Papua New Guinea, with
00:07 crews giving up hope of finding survivors.
00:10 The chief of the UN's Migration Agency mission there said the revised death toll was based
00:15 on calculations after more than 150 homes were buried.
00:20 The numbers are feared to be much greater than initially anticipated.
00:26 We have a team of six staff members currently at the site, together with other agencies
00:34 from government and non-government entities, working hand in hand and side by side in delivering
00:40 relief and aid support.
00:43 Emergency responders moved survivors to safer grounds as tons of unstable dirt threatened
00:49 the rescue effort.
00:50 The government established evacuation centres on safer grounds on either side of the debris,
00:55 which covered an area the size of three or four football fields.
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