A heavy 6.7-magnitude that struck the remote highlands of earthquake-rattled Papua New Guinea leaving 24 people killed, officials said on Wednesday, bringing the total death toll to over 100 since last week. The tremor was the most severe in a series of over 100 aftershocks in recent days.

It struck overnight close to the epicentre of recently magnitude-7.5 quake in the border region of Hela and Southern Highland provinces, 600 kilometres from the capital Port Moresby.

“At least 18 people were killed in Como district and two were killed in another district in the overnight earthquake,’’ William Bando, Hela Province administrator, told newsmen. In neighbouring Southern Highlands, five people were killed.


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So sad