Al-Jazeera reported this information on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
According to the report, the number of casualties may increase as the residents are sleeping. Meanwhile, locals say that around three hundred people have died in this incident. However, authorities are yet to confirm the actual number of casualties.
Meanwhile, after the landslide, medical teams, members of the military, police and staff of various UN agencies have been sent to the accident site.
Janet Philmon, interim secretary-general of the Papua New Guinea Red Cross, told AFP the landslide was in a remote village. It can take up to two days for emergency services or relief to reach there.
