KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 27 people have died and more than 70 others are missing after heavy monsoon rains triggered a massive landslide in India’s western state of Maharashtra, media reports say.
Seventy-eight people are still unaccounted for since the landslide hit Irshalwadi village on Wednesday night in Raigadh district, nearly 50 miles from Mumbai, the Maharashtra state capital.
At least 17 of 48 houses in the village were fully or partially buried under the debris, officials said.
“We’ve so far counted 27 bodies, and about 50 to 60 people are still missing, but there are multiple . . .
