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NEW DELHI – Days of landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in western India s Maharashtra state killed at least 113 people and injured 50, officials said Sunday, as rescuers scrambled to find at least 100 missing.
A government spokesperson, Sandhya Garware, said over 130,000 people were rescued from nearly 900 affected villages across the state. Many were stranded on rooftops or atop buses on highways. India s navy also said it deployed helicopters to evacuate stranded people and sent rescue teams with boats to the region.
Officials said one of the worst-hit villages was Talai, 168 miles south of Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra state and also India s financial and entertainment hub. The village of 59 households was buried by a massive landslide on Thursday, state official Sagar Pathak said.
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Villagers console a woman (C) who lost a relative following a landslide at Taliye, about 22 km from Mahad city on July 24, 2021, as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains climbed to 79, with nearly 90,000 others evacuated in the western state of Maharashtra. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP) (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images)
A landslide in northern India sent rocks tumbling down a mountain and colliding with a vehicle, killing at least nine individuals, many of whom were tourists, and damaging a bridge.
A dramatic video shows stones tumbling into a valley in Himachal Pradesh, a Himalayan state. According to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the vehicle was transporting 11 individuals.