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Rescue teams arrive at site of deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea

People gather at the site of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's Enga province on Friday. [AFP]

Rescue crews arrived at the site of a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's remote highlands Saturday, helping villagers search for hundreds of people feared dead under towering mounds of rubble and mud.

The disaster struck an isolated part of Enga province around 3:00 am Friday, according to government officials, wiping out swathes of the hillside settlement as villagers slept.

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