PNG floods leave 500 homeless

4:25 pm on 5 January 2017

More than 500 people in Papua New Guinea are homeless and many domestic animals and food gardens have been washed away by a huge flood.

The Post Courier reports the flood in the Eastern Highlands Province happened on Tuesday night after continuous rain.

The flood swept away three people - two were found but one is still missing.

At least 53 houses, two bridges, two poultry houses with 200 chickens and 12 domestic pigs were reportedly washed away.

A landslip blocked the huge Dunantina River at its source in the mountains of Kesivaka, which busted leading to further devastation.