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Rescuers search Papua New Guinea landslide site
An Australian rescue team sent to a mining camp in Papua New Guinea hit by a landslide had found no more dead bodies after the initial 10 dead, an Australian government aid official said on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:32 December 7, 2008
Sydney: An Australian rescue team sent to a mining camp in Papua New Guinea hit by a landslide had found no more dead bodies after the initial 10 dead, an Australian government aid official said on Sunday.
All the local people affected by the landslide in Eastern Highlands province in the vicinity of the Kainantu gold mine site had been accounted for, the official said.
Dozens of people were earlier feared to have been trapped after the landslide struck on Thursday.
The Australia Broadcasting Corporation quoted an AusAid spokesman a saying that headcounts done in nearby villages had indicated everyone was accounted for.
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