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The government of Papua New Guinea estimates that 2,000 people were buried alive when a devastating landslide destroyed a village in the early hours of Friday morning, and a United Nations offical is warning that because of weather conditions, the situation could quickly get worse. “What really worries me personally very much is the weather, weather, weather,” Serhan Aktoprak, the chief of the U.N International Organization for Migration’s mission in Papua New Guinea said. “Because the land is still sliding. Rocks are falling.” Many residents of the impacted Yambali village, located in the Eng…

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