Death toll after Papua New Guinea landslide soars to more than 670

Local officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only six bodies had been recovered by Sunday

An injured person is carried on a stretcher to seek medical assistance after the landslide (Benjamin Sipa/International Organisation for Migration/AP)

The estimated death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea has soared to more than 670.

Serhan Aktoprak, chief of the UN migration agency’s mission in the South Pacific island nation, said the revised death toll is based on calculations by Yambali village and Enga provincial officials that more than 150 homes had been buried by Friday’s landslide. The previous estimate had been 60 homes.