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At least 670 people died after a landslide in Papua New Guinea, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) head of mission for Papua New Guinea, Serhan Aktoprak, told Australian broadcaster ABC on Sunday. He said the scale of the impact was much greater than initially thought. The disaster occurred in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea. Terrain surrounding the disaster zone in Enga province remained dangerous and unstable, prompting the evacuation of about 1,250 survivors, Aktoprak said. Papua New Guinea, with a population of almost 10 million people, lies just north of Australia…

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