Days after a landslide struck Papua New Guinea, the United Nations’s International Organization for Migration increased its estimated death count to more than 670, the Associated Press (AP) reported Sunday.
The increased death toll estimate follows many first responders and local relatives reportedly giving up hope finding survivors in the aftermath of Friday’s disaster, according to the AP.
Serhan Aktoprak, a United Nations representative, told the AP that initial calculations of destroyed homes came out to 60, but local officials updated that number to 150. (RELATED: ‘People Are Buried Under Rubble’: 15 Dead, Nearly 40 Injured After Two 6.3 Magnitude Earthquakes Hit Afghanistan)
More than 670 people died in a massive Papua New Guinea landslide, UN estimates, as survivors seek safety https://t.co/i5MFeFzzWt via @stcatstandard
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