Nine people were feared dead Monday after a landslide tore through a village in Papua New Guinea's rugged Highlands region burying homes, reports said.

Nine killed in PNG landslide: reports

by Staff Writers Sydney (AFP) Nov 04, 2013

Nine people were feared dead Monday after a landslide tore through a village in Papua New Guinea's rugged Highlands region burying homes, reports said.
Villagers were sleeping when the massive slip of earth, trees and debris crashed down a mountain side on Saturday night onto Kenagi village on the border of Eastern Highlands province, the Post Courier newspaper said.
Local councillor David Nondo said one body, of a 10-year-old boy, had been recovered but it would take days to dig up the dead from the landslide which cut the crucial Highlands Highway.
"The area is now a burial ground and we do not want people passing through at will," Nondo told the paper.
"This means nothing -- trucks, buses and passengers -- are allowed to go into or drive over the area on the highway."

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