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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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