Landslide in India: Death toll reaches 50
The toll in a landslide disaster in Pune's Malin village touched 50, with another 22 injured, an official said on Friday, India Today reported.
As many as 44 houses were crushed in Malin village, in Western Maharashtra, by the massive landslide that occurred on Wednesday morning.
It has also come to light that around two dozen people were sleeping on a platform of the village temple premises in Malin and they may have been washed away in the adjacent river.
A team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has started a combing operation along the banks of the river, now in a spate due to incessant rains, to search for victims or survivors.
Braving all odds, the relief and rescue teams continued to search for survivors or bodies of the estimated 130 people who are still feared trapped under the debris, though chances of any more survivors appeared bleak.