Port Moresby, May 24 (UNI) More than 100 people may have been killed in a landslide that hit a remote village in Papua New Guinea early Friday, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing residents.
The landslide hit the remote village of Kaokalam in the Oceania country's Enga Province, located approximately 600 kilometres (373 miles) from the capital here at about 3 am local time.
Houses were destroyed when the nearby mountainside collapsed, Elizabeth Larume, the president of the Porgera Women in Business Association, was cited as saying.