Landslide buries 15 people, including three children, from PNG gold mine camp

Fifteen people, including three children, are feared dead after being buried alive in a landslide in a remote part of Papua New Guinea’s Central Province.

The area in the Goilala District, known as Saki, is home to an informal alluvial mining camp, where people dig and pan for gold to make a living.

A group were sleeping at the base of the mountainside when the landslide happened in the early hours of Monday morning, local time.

Details of the incident only emerged on Tuesday, as the area is only accessibly by helicopter or a…