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NAT098 – (Papua-New-Guinea-Landslide)
UNDATED. x–18s. United Nations officials say up to 670 people may have been killed in a massive landslide that buried a village in a remote area of New Guinea. Reporter Patrick Reevell says hope is fading that any survivors will be found beneath the thick mounds of earth and rubble from Friday’s landslide.
(“..in some places.”) (SOURCE:ABC)

TAG: Relief crews are moving survivors to safer ground as tonnes of unstable earth threaten the rescue effort.

The Canadian Press broadcast team, ABC