This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Monday, the 27th of May,

these are our main stories.

Hundreds are feared dead in Papua New Guinea after a landslide obliterated a village.

Palestinian health officials have accused Israel of carrying out a deadly air strike on an area for displaced people in Raffa in southern Gaza.

Dozens have reportedly been killed, including children.

Officials in Nigeria say gunmen have abducted about 160 people from a remote village.

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years. The United Nations is now saying a huge landslide in Papua New

Guinea may have claimed the lives of 670 people. A once bustling village was almost

completely obliterated when the landslide struck in the early hours of Friday

morning bearing scores of homes. The side of a mountain appears to have sheared away.

At some points the landslide a mix of car-sized boulders, uprooted trees and churned up earth

was thought to be 8 meters deep. It's believed to have

been triggered by heavy rains.

Saahan Actoprak is the chief of the UN Migration Agency's mission in the South Pacific Island Nation.

One whole community that was situated at the foot of the mountain had been buried under a six to eight meter deep soil. The estimated number of

houses that is buried under thick debris is approximately 150 plus, with hopes of saving them alive.

A local official Ignaz Nembo visited the scene and after watching villagers trying to move

the rubber with sticks in their hands describe the scale of the devastation.

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