In the day's other headlines a government official in Papua New Guinea says more than 2,000 people were buried alive in Friday's landslide.

That figure is roughly three times an earlier UN estimate of 670 fatalities. The landslide crushed a village in the

mountainous Enga province in the country's north. As of Monday, only five bodies had been

recovered. Villagers are using sticks, shovels, and their hands

to dig in the mud.

The International Organization for Migration

is leading the response.

The group's chief of mission says locals are trying to protect the bodies of the dead.

And because of the sensitivities involved with respect to warning and grieving we have been told until yesterday,

people were not necessarily

that it came on welcoming heavy machinery

because they would like to preserve the integrity of the

corpses. That same official says that the damage to the roadways and the risk of

more landslides have also complicated rescue efforts.

Spain pledged today to supply Ukraine with more air defense missiles

as part of a weapons package announced last month.

In Madrid today Ukrainian President

Vladimir Zelensky thanked Spain's Prime Minister for his commitment but

Zolensky said his forces will need at least seven additional Patriot Air

Defense Systems to launch the missiles in order to keep up with

Russia's onslaught.

Russia uses over 3,000 guided aerial bombs against people per month.

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