Mudslide leaves 19 dead, 50 missing in northeast India
1/7/2022 18:01
Rescuers found five more bodies as they resumed clearing operations after an overnight halt looking for dozens of missing people after a mudslide triggered by weeks of heavy downpours killed at least 19 people at a railroad construction site in India's northeast.
Soldiers joined more than 200 disaster response workers and police using earth-clearing equipment like bulldozers to rescue those buried under the debris in Noney, a town near Imphal, the capital of Manipur state. A district magistrate said, but the terrain is making it difficult to move heavy equipment, adding that he has asked for reinforcements.
The magistrate said, intermittent rain continues in the region where 19 bodies have been recovered so far after a hillock caved in and buried the railroad project area.
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