Week After Papua New Guinea Quake, Nearly 150,000 Need Urgent Aid

Week After Papua New Guinea Quake, Nearly 150,000 Need Urgent Aid
FILE PHOTO: A local stands next to a damaged house near a landslide in the town of Tari after an earthquake struck Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands in this image taken Feb. 27, 2018 obtained from social media. Francis Ambrose/via Reuters
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Almost a week after a deadly quake struck the rugged Papua New Guinea highlands, nearly 150,000 people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies as damaged roads and landslides have hampered the delivery of aid to isolated communities, agencies have said.

The quake destroyed or damaged the homes of around 7000 people, while 147,000 were in severe need of food, water and sanitation, the director of the International Red Cross in PNG, Udaya Regmi, told Reuters on Sunday.