{"id":213700,"date":"2021-12-28T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/?p=213700"},"modified":"2021-12-28T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:39:59","slug":"one-dead-four-missing-in-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/one-dead-four-missing-in-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, four missing in landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/265956369_1244879965994745_1270724480422240376_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213701\" width=\"106\" height=\"101\"\/><figcaption>By Jim John <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An elderly woman has been pronounced dead, while a mother and her three children are still buried underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows after a huge landslide which occurred around 1am on Monday 27<sup>th<\/sup> of December at Topa village, Mendi in Southern Highlands Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The villagers dug up the ground with spades and sticks and found the body of the elderly woman however could not save her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search is continuing as villagers attempt to remove piled up stones and muds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1640585947560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213703\" width=\"172\" height=\"151\"\/><figcaption>Villagers searching for missing persons<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a Munhiu Primary School teacher, Henson Akop, villagers are still gathering at the incident site to find missing persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need assistance from the Provincial Government and District leaders to provide excavators to remove the ground and huge stones. We are still using spades and a sticks to look for missing people but it\u2019s not enough&#8221;, Akop said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said they were all confused as to what had caused the landslide as the area had been experiencing dry weather conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1640585954502-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-213704\" width=\"182\" height=\"154\"\/><figcaption>Homes destroyed as search continues <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>15 houses were destroyed including 30 vegetable gardens and more than 20 people have been left homeless after the landslide hit Topa village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other homes belonging to the Pind and Kemp tribes in Topa village suffered major damage as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body of the elderly woman was taken to the Mendi General Hospital and is now in the morgue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim John An elderly woman has been pronounced dead, while a mother and her three children are still buried underground. This follows after a huge landslide which occurred around 1am on Monday 27th of December at Topa village, Mendi in Southern Highlands Province. The villagers dug up the ground with spades and sticks and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":213705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,113,24],"tags":[3499],"class_list":["post-213700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlands","category-mi-ripot","category-news","tag-topa-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtv.com.pg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}