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Search ends for Papua New Guinea landslide victims
By ROD McGUIRK,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 4 minutes ago
CANBERRA, Australia - Sniffer dog teams flown from Australia to neighboring Papua New Guinea abandoned a daylong search Sunday for buried survivors of a landslide that killed 10 last week.
With no reports of anyone missing since the tragedy on Thursday, the death toll is likely to remain at the 10 bodies already retrieved.
The Australian government, which on Saturday flew a team of five search and rescue specialists with two dogs to the impoverished South Pacific island nation to find survivors, said in a statement Sunday that they had completed their work without detecting any signs of life.
The slide destroyed miners' accommodations at a mineral exploration camp two miles (three kilometers) from Canadian miner Barrick Gold Corp.'s Kainantu mine in the rugged Eastern Highlands province. All the victims, including five miners, were from Papua New Guinea.
The Papua New Guinea government asked Australia on Friday to send help because Barrick geologists believed there was a chance that survivors remained trapped in cavities under the earth.
Papua New Guinea is the most populous island nation in the South Pacific with 6 million people who rely heavily on Australian aid.
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