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Papua New Guinea’s disaster agency has said it fears that more than 2,000 people could be buried under the rubble after a landslide on Friday. “The landslide buried more than 2,000 people alive and caused major destruction to buildings,” an official from the country’s National Disaster Centre said in a letter to the United Nations seen by dpa on Monday. The Australian broadcaster ABC said it has not been able to independently verify the toll, while citing “multiple sources” in Papua New Guinea as saying it’s too early to give a definitive death toll. Several villages in the province of Enga we…

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