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Dozens missing in Papua New Guinea landslide
A rescue team has been dispatched to search for at least 40 people missing in Papua New Guinea after a landslide hit near a gold mine, according to media reports on Saturday.
- Agencies
- Published: 07:53 December 6, 2008
Sydney: A rescue team has been dispatched to search for at least 40 people missing in Papua New Guinea after a landslide hit near a gold mine, according to media reports on Saturday.
The bodies of 10 dead, including those of three children, had been recovered from the site already, an Australian government official said.
"We still don't really know how many are buried. They think that the village itself had about that many people," said Alastair Wilson, spokesman for Emergency Management Australia.
The landslide happened on Thursday at the Kora exploration camp of the Kainantu gold mine site, east of Goroka, the capital of Eastern Highlands province.
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