People are also reaching any survivors with spades, sticks, and their bare hands more than 72 hrs after the flood.
Due to the remoteness, heavy supplies and help have been arriving slowly, while cultural fighting near has forced support staff to go in fleets escorted by soldiers and make their way back to the provincial capital, which is about 60 kilometers away at night.
Eight people were killed and 30 homes burnt down on Saturday, a UN agency established said. On Monday, help fleets passed the still-burning homes.
The first archaeologist just reached the site later on Sunday, according to a UN standard. Six systems have been found so much.
Due to the uneven reception and minimal electricity at the site, communication with other parts of the nation is difficult.
According to Matthew Hewitt Tapus, a pastor based in Port Moresby whose home village is about 20 kilometers from the disaster zone, many people are n’t even aware where their loved ones were when the landslide struck.
” It’s not like everyone is in the same house at the same time, so you have fathers who do n’t know where their children are, mothers who do n’t know where husbands are, it’s chaotic”, he told Reuters by phone.
The crisis was being handled by PNG crisis authorities, according to Prime Minister James Marape’s company, and Marape was in Port Moresby on Tuesday preparing for the return of parliament, where he faces a no-confidence motion.