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MELBOURNE, May 26: The International Organisation for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.
\nSerhan Aktoprak, the chief of the UN migration agency\u2019s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll was based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been buried by Friday\u2019s landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.
\n\u201cThey are estimating that more than 670 people (are) under the soil at the moment,\u201d Aktoprak told The Associated Press.
\nLocal officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered by Sunday.
\nEmergency responders in Papua New Guinea were moving survivors to safer ground on Sunday as tons of unstable earth and tribal warfare, which is rife in the country\u2019s Highlands, threatened the rescue effort.
\nThe South Pacific island\u2019s government meanwhile is considering whether it needs to officially request more international support.
\nCrews have given up hope of finding survivors under earth and rubble 6 to 8 meters (20 to 26 feet) deep, Aktoprak said.
\n\u201cPeople are coming to terms with this so there is a serious level of grieving and mourning,\u201d he said.
\nGovernment authorities were establishing evacuation centers on safer ground on either side of the massive swath of debris that covers an area the size of three to four football fields and has cut the main highway through the province.
\n\u201cWorking across the debris is very dangerous and the land is still sliding,\u201d Aktoprak said.
\nBeside the blocked highway, convoys that have transported food, water and other essential supplies since Saturday to the devastated village 60 kilometers (35 miles) from the provincial capital, Wabag, have faced risks related to tribal fighting in Tambitanis village, about halfway along the route. Papua New Guinea soldiers were providing security for the convoys.
\nEight locals were killed in a clash between two rival clans on Saturday in a longstanding dispute unrelated to the landslide. Around 30 homes and five retail businesses were burned down in the fighting, local officials said.
\nAktoprak said he did not expect tribal combatants would target the convoys but noted that opportunistic criminals might take advantage of the mayhem to do so.
\n\u201cThis could basically end up in carjacking or robbery,\u201d Aktoprak said. \u201cThere is not only concern for the safety and security of the personnel, but also the goods because they may use this chaos as a means to steal.\u201d
\nLongtime tribal warfare has cast doubt on the official estimate that almost 4,000 people were living in the village when a side of Mount Mungalo fell away.
\nJustine McMahon, country director of the humanitarian agency CARE International, said moving survivors to \u201cmore stable ground\u201d was an immediate priority along with providing them with food, water and shelter. The military was leading those efforts.
\nThe numbers of injured and missing were still being assessed on Sunday. Seven people including a child had received medical treatment by Saturday, but officials had no details on their conditions.
\nMedical facilities were buried along with houses, several small businesses, a guest house, school and gas station, officials said.
\nMcMahon said there were other health facilities in the region, the provincial government was sending health workers and the World Health Organization was mobilizing staff.
\n\u201cThere will be some support, but it\u2019s such a spread-out area that I think it will be quite a challenging situation,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cThe scale of this disaster is quite immense.\u201d
\nWhile Papua New Guinea is in the tropics, the village is 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) above sea level where temperatures are substantially cooler.
\nPapua New Guinea Defense Minister Billy Joseph and the government\u2019s National Disaster Center director Laso Mana were flying from Port Moresby by helicopter to Wabag on Sunday to gain a firsthand perspective of what is needed.
\nAktoprak expected the government would decide by Tuesday whether it would officially request more international help.
\nThe United States and Australia, a near neighbour and Papua New Guinea\u2019s most generous provider of foreign aid, are among governments that have publicly stated their readiness to do more to help responders.
\nPapua New Guinea is a diverse, developing nation with 800 languages and 10 million people who are mostly subsistence farmers<\/p>\n

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