MUMBAI: At least five people were killed and many were feared buried when a landslide hit a mountain village in India's western state of Maharashtra after incessant rain soaked the region, state officials said on Thursday (Jul 20). The landslide occurred in the middle of the night in the mountain hamlet of
MUMBAI: At least five people were killed and many were feared buried when a landslide hit a mountain village in India's western state of Maharashtra after incessant rain soaked the region, state officials said on Thursday .
"A total of 48 families lived there. Around 75 people have been evacuated and five people have died so far," the state's deputy chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis, said on Twitter. "The problem here is that at some places the rubble is almost 20 to 30 feet deep and it has to be manually removed," an unidentified rescue official told ABP Majha channel.
Incessant rain has closed schools, flooded roads and disrupted trains across Maharashtra, which is India's richest state.
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