The country's western coast has been inundated by torrential rains since Thursday, with the India Meteorological Department warning of further downpours over the next few days.
In Maharasthra state, 114 people have been killed, including more than 40 in a large landslide that hit the hillside village of Taliye, south of Mumbai, on Thursday.
It flattened dozens of homes in a matter of minutes, leaving just two concrete structures standing and cutting off power supply, local residents told AFP."My entire team is engaged in rescue operations now," National Disaster Response Force Inspector Rajesh Yawale, who was coordinating rescue operations in the village, told AFP Saturday.AFP | INDRANIL MUKHERJEEA dozen others were killed in two separate landslides, also south of Mumbai.
Eight patients at a local COVID-19 hospital also reportedly died after power supply to ventilators was cut off by the floods. In the coastal plains spanning Maharashtra and Goa, floodwater levels remained elevated after rivers burst their banks.Further south in Karnataka state, the death toll rose from three to nine overnight, with four others missing, officials said.
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