5 Jun 2024

Nine bodies recovered from PNG's Enga landslide

From , 6:01 am on 5 June 2024
An aerial view of the landslide in Yambali village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Monday, 27 May, 2024. Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea's recent mass-casualty disaster.

An aerial view of the landslide in Yambali village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, Monday, 27 May, 2024. Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea's recent mass-casualty disaster. Photo: Juho Valta / UNDP Papua New Guinea, via AP

Nine bodies have now been recovered from the landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga province. 

⁠Basic food items like rice and tinned fish have been distributed to about 1000 people but thousands more are still going hungry.

Mohamud Omer who's on the ground with the UN's International Organisation for Migration updated RNZ Pacific's Caleb Fotheringham on the latest.