Mass evacuations in Papua New Guinea amid fears of further landslides

Villagers react as they search through a landslide in Yambali village, in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. (Juho Valta/AP)

Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster, a United Nations official said.

A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated the village of Yambali in the remote highlands of the South Pacific nation when a limestone mountainside sheared away on Friday.