Death toll from northeast India landslide rises to 20

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GUWAHATI, India: Rescuers in India's northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said Friday (Jul 1), after a second day of search efforts. Security forces and disaster relief teams are still racing to rescue dozens more feared t

GUWAHATI, India: Rescuers in India's northeast have recovered 20 bodies from the site of a landslide that buried a railway construction camp, the army said Friday , after a second day of search efforts.

Most victims were reserve soldiers from the Territorial Army who had been working on the railway project. A rescue team was digging through mud and removing boulders in the search for more survivors, army spokesman Sumit Kumar Sharma said. India's remote northeast has been pummelled by heavy rainfall in recent weeks, triggering landslides and floods.

 

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I remember when there was a disaster in China , some people , presumbly from origin from this country , actually said ' karma' ......

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