A FAMILY of four were treated for minor injuries at the Alotau General Hospital after being rescued from a landslide in Milne Bay province last Friday, Milne Bay provincial disaster and emergency officer Eric Balaria said yesterday.
“They had already been discharged from the hospital,” he said.
Mr Balaria said the family was in their hillside house in Alotau when a landslide occurred, burying their house at about 12pm with them inside.
“The landslide was caused by heavy rains due to the changing weather patterns,” he said.
“It had been raining heavily for the last nine months when the rainy season was supposed to occur between November and April.”
Mr Balaria also said a house in a settlement near Alotau had been swept away by heavy flooding.
“I have yet to receive details from disaster officers from the districts about the flooding situation caused by rains.”
However, he said no bridge or road had been washed out yet and there had been no deaths reported so far.