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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.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Prosecutors in El Salvador have formally charged former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén with illicit enrichment and money laundering. The charges are related to crimes allegedly committed when Sánchez Cerén served as vice president in the administration of President Mauricio Funes from 2009 to 2014. Nine other former top officials in the Funes’ administration were also formally charged Sunday in the alleged illegal scheme to pay exorbitant bonuses. The case has become known as the “Public Looting” scandal. Sánchez Cerén allegedly received $530,000 from the scheme. He went on to serve as president from 2014 to 2019. He left the country in December and has not returned.
By Nelson Renteria
SAN SALVADOR, July 22 (Reuters) - El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and nine top officials from a past administration as part of a money laundering and corruption probe, the Attorney General s office said on Thursday.
The office said Sanchez Ceren was out of the country, but six former high-ranking members of President Mauricio Funes s government from 2009 to 2014 have been detained.
Sanchez Ceren was vice president at the time, before becoming president in the following term. His successor, President Nayib Bukele, has drawn rebukes for a string of controversial moves, including removing the attorney general and closing an anti-corruption office.
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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former president Salvador Sanchez Ceren and nine top officials from a past administration as part of a money laundering and corruption probe, the Attorney General’s office said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: President Salvador Sanchez Ceren of El Salvador waits to address the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
The office said Sanchez Ceren was out of the country, but five former high-ranking members of former president Mauricio Funes’s government from 2009 to 2014 have been detained.
Sanchez Ceren was vice president at the time, before becoming president in the following term. His successor, President Nayib Bukele, has drawn rebukes for a string of controversial moves, including removing the attorney general and closing an anti-corruption office.