Five dead, a thousand homes destroyed in earthquake

Adapting to nature: Locals standing on a makeshift bridge in the flooded Angriman Village in Angoram ­district, East Sepik. — AFP

AT least five people were killed and an estimated 1,000 homes destroyed when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked Papua New Guinea, officials said as disaster crews poured into the region.

Dozens of villages nestled on the banks of the country’s famed Sepik River were already battling soaking floods when the quake struck early Sunday morning.