Landslide kills schoolchildren in PNG

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Peruvian rescue workers battled against torrential rain Wednesday to locate 30 people buried by a landslide that killed at least 13 at a mining camp in the country's mountainous south. For a third straight day rescue teams worked their way through tons of mud, rocks and debris at altitudes of over 3,400 meters (11,100 feet) to reach victims, who have been buried since the early hours of Monday morning. "Until now 13 people have died. Seven corpses have been transferred by helicopter to an area nearby ... six remain in situ," Carabaya province Mayor Nancy Rossell told AFP. The poverty-stricken Andean region of Puno, 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south of the capital Lima, is home to scores of rudimentary gold mines, often operating without adequate safety equipment.

by Staff Writers
Sydney (AFP) March 4, 2009
At least seven people, including four children, were killed in a landslide after torrential rains in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, local media reported Wednesday.

The toll was expected to rise as more people were believed to be trapped under the debris, which engulfed two buses and three houses near Watabung on the Okuk Highway on Tuesday, the National newspaper said.

Four primary schoolgirls on their way to school on one of the buses were reported to be among the seven dead, with a number of other passengers unaccounted for as search and rescue efforts continued.

"We presume that more people are dead when you calculate the number of people on the two buses, and many who could have been around the area," National Disaster Service chairman Manasupe Zurenuoc told the Post-Courier.

A smaller landslip had cut the highway on Monday and buses were stopping at either side of the debris to allow people to walk across and continue to their destinations when the second landslide occurred, he said.

"What has occurred is unfortunate. People living along the highway must take precautions during this heavy downpour the country is experiencing," he said.

Hundreds of people in the Western Highlands province of the impoverished Pacific island nation were left homeless last month after a river burst its banks following weeks of heavy rain.

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