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May 30, 2024 Updated 29 mins ago
AFP
Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday.
Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring.
Much of the area's water flows through the landslide site -- now a 600 metre-long (1,970 feet) graveyard.
"The creeks now flowing from the debris are contaminated, posing a significant risk of disease outbreak" the UN's migration agency told partners in a rapid assessment report.
"There are no methods being used to treat the water to make it safe for drinking," it said, warning of diarrhoea and malaria. ...
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has estimated the number of dead at 2,000, which would make this one of the deadliest landslides in recent memory. ...
AFP
Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said Thursday.
Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring.
Much of the area's water flows through the landslide site -- now a 600 metre-long (1,970 feet) graveyard.
"The creeks now flowing from the debris are contaminated, posing a significant risk of disease outbreak" the UN's migration agency told partners in a rapid assessment report.
"There are no methods being used to treat the water to make it safe for drinking," it said, warning of diarrhoea and malaria. ...
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has estimated the number of dead at 2,000, which would make this one of the deadliest landslides in recent memory. ...