NEW DELHI—Heavy monsoon rains have pummeled the western Indian state of Maharashtra, triggering landslides and flooding that have killed at least 113 people today, according to the state governing administration.
Maharashtra, property to the money funds of Mumbai, has viewed its heaviest July rainfall in decades. Days of downpours have designed roads impassable and restricted accessibility to villages across the state.
In Taliye, a village about 110 miles southeast of Mumbai, at least 43 people today had been killed by a landslide, claimed Nidhi Chaudhary, the Raigad district collector. Added landslides killed at least 11 people today in two other villages in the district.
Rescue groups are still trudging by means of thick levels of mud and flooded terrain to try out to arrive at villagers trapped by mudslides in isolated regions, according to an formal with the state’s catastrophe-administration department. The Indian Military, Coast Guard and National Catastrophe Response Force are among the the groups deployed in the rescue effort.
“Locations are remote, and it’s a mudslide,” the formal claimed. “Hence, removal of people today will become much more challenging.”
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