{"id":64533,"date":"2024-05-30T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T05:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/papua-new-guinea-landslide-rescues-death-toll-no-survivors-expected"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T05:31:37","slug":"papua-new-guinea-landslide-rescuers-say-they-do-not-expect-to-find-survivors-under-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64533","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea landslide: rescuers say they do not expect to find survivors under rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are still trying to pinpoint the exact death toll, as rescue teams are set to begin using heavy machinery to recover the dead<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Papua New Guinea have said they do not expect to find survivors under the rubble of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/papua-new-guinea-landslide-satellite-images-death-toll-rescues\">massive landslide<\/a> in the country\u2019s remote north, with the exact number of dead under almost two storeys of debris and mud still unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy equipment and aid have been slow to arrive to the site of the landslide \u2013 which hit almost a week ago \u2013 because of the treacherous mountain terrain, a damaged bridge on the main road, and tribal unrest in the area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/papua-new-guinea-landslide-rescues-death-toll-no-survivors-expected\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are still trying to pinpoint the exact death toll, as rescue teams are set to begin using heavy machinery to recover the deadOfficials in Papua New Guinea have said they do not expect to find survivors under the rubble of a massive landslide &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64534,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64533\/revisions\/64534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}