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India Flooding, Landslides Kill at Least 113 People

NEW DELHI—Heavy monsoon rains have pummeled the western Indian point out of Maharashtra, triggering landslides and flooding that have killed at the very least 113 folks, according to the point out government.

Maharashtra, dwelling to the money funds of Mumbai, has found its heaviest July rainfall in a long time. Times of downpours have produced roadways impassable and limited obtain to villages throughout the point out.

In Taliye, a village about a hundred and ten miles southeast of Mumbai, at the very least 43 folks have been killed by a landslide, said Nidhi Chaudhary, the Raigad district collector. Added landslides killed at the very least 11 folks in two other villages in the district.

Rescue teams are however trudging by means of thick levels of mud and flooded terrain to check out to get to villagers trapped by mudslides in isolated areas, according to an official with the state’s catastrophe-administration department. The Indian Army, Coast Guard and National Disaster Response Pressure are among the teams deployed in the rescue effort.

“Locations are remote, and it is a mudslide,” the official said. “Hence, elimination of folks will become a lot more tricky.”