Indian landslides kill seven
A landslide triggered by heavy rains killed seven people in a village in western India, while authorities evacuated more than 200 elsewhere in the area, a news report said Monday.
At least seven workers at a furniture factory were killed in the landslide Sunday night in Dicarpale village in Goa state’s South Goa district, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
Also Monday, authorities in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh said they have received reports of nine rain-related deaths in the past two days from different parts of the state.
The deaths were caused by drowning, wall collapses and electrocutions, the state’s Relief Minister K Dharmana Prasad Rao told reporters.
India’s monsoon rains, which usually last from June through September, claim hundreds of lives every year. More than 150 deaths have been reported this season.
In Goa, two factory workers were rescued alive from the debris, Singh was quoted as saying.
Goa has received more than 11 inches of rain in the past two days, the news agency said, quoting weather officials.
Torrential rains were likely to continue until Tuesday, it said.
Officials in Goa could not immediately be reached for comment on the reports Monday night.
