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Yambali is a village in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG, Lagaip District of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located directly at the Laiagam-Porgera road. Yambali is 595 km (370 mi) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby. As of May 2024, Yambali had a population of nearly 4,000 people. The settlement was destroyed in the 2024 Enga landslide. [1] [2]
Maip Muritaka Rural LLG is a local-level government of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. [1] [2] In the news coverage of the 2024 Enga landslide affecting Yambali and Kaokalam villages, it was generally referred to as "Mulitaka". [3] [4]
Map of Enga Province. Enga is one of the provinces in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Enga is geographically situated in the northern region of Papua New Guinea and was separated from the adjacent Western Highlands at the time of national independence in 1975. The majority ethnic group are Engans. [3]
People dig through debris at the site of a landslide in Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka, in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea on May 27, 2024. ... Papua New Guinea on May 27, 2024 ...
UN officials say chances are ‘very slim that anyone can be taken out alive’ in Papua New Guinea’s Yambali. ... Papua New Guinea’s last credible census was in 2000, with many people living ...
The Papua New Guinea government said more than 2,000 people are believed to have been buried alive in a landslide in the South Pacific island nation, after the side of a mountain came down in the ...
The Papua New Guinea government formally requested aid from the United Nations and other countries on 26 May. [37] A state of emergency was declared in the affected region, [38] with authorities saying that nearly 7,900 people living near the disaster site were at risk from further landslides. [39]
Papua New Guinea’s government has told the United Nations it thinks more than 2,000 people were buried. Marape said that geotechnical reports in recent days found the area remains unstable.