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More than 670 people are believed to be dead after a massive landslip in Papua New Guinea
The hillside village in Enga province was almost completely obliterated when the landslip struck, burying scores of homes and the people sleeping inside them
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).
It shares its only land border with Indonesia to the west and it is directly adjacent to Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.
Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby.
The country is the world's third largest island country
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