(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
There have been at least four people killed and several others
seriously injured after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit Papua New
Guinea on Sunday morning, Trend reports citing Xinhua .
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs' regional branch in the Asia-Pacific citing a situation
report from the UN Country Team in Papua New Guinea on Sunday said
that so far at least four deaths and four other injuries have been
reported.
Among the fatalities were one in the Rai Coast district of the
Madang province, and three in the town of Wau of the Morobe
province. All were buried in landslides.
Some other people in Morobe were injured due to falling
structures or debris, and there was damage reported to health
centers, homes, rural roads and highways, according to the
provincial disaster management center.
The regional power grid, Internet cables, and the regional
highway were damaged, but regional commercial airports have
remained in operation, said the report.
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