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“A mountain fell on them,” says a rescuer at the PNG landslide site

SYDNEY: Families in the village of Yambali in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a “mountain” of rubble buried them alive in a giant landslide, a UN rescue worker at the scene and the country’s prime minister said. For five days, survivors have been using shovels and bare hands to dig through mud and debris nearly two stories high and covering three to four football fields in the area, which has buried about 2,000 people. Rescue workers say the chances of finding survivors are slim. “It’s basically a mountain that has fallen on their heads,” said