devastation stirred by the Monsoon in India.
At least 43 bodies have been recovered after a
massive landslide triggered by monsoon rains swept away dozens of
tea estate workers in southwestern India, police said
Sunday.
The landslide in Idukki district, around 250 kilometres (155
miles) from Kerala state’s capital Thiruvananthapuram, occurred
Friday but the ongoing search and rescue efforts have been hampered
by torrential downpours.
The toll rose to 43 on Sunday afternoon, Idukki district’s
police chief, R. Karuppasamy, told AFP.
Twenty-six of the bodies were recovered on Friday night, a
police official said earlier Sunday.
Local media reported that some 78 people were believed to live
in the area, with many still missing.
Kerala has been hit by deadly floods during the annual
monsoon.
At least 18 people died in a passenger jet crash in Kerala on
Friday when an Air India Express jet overshot the runway while
trying to land in a storm and plunged down a bank.
The monsoon across South Asia is critical to replenishing rivers
and groundwater, but also causes widespread death and
destruction.
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More than 300 people have died in floods and landslides in
eastern and northeastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal in recent
weeks.
boat in the Buriganga river as rain clouds loom over Dhaka on
August 9, 2020. (Photo by Munir Uz zaman / AFP)
street after a monsoon rainfall in Lahore on August 9, 2020. (Photo
by Arif ALI / AFP)
a flooded street after a monsoon rainfall in Lahore on August 9,
2020. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)
missing people at a landslide site caused by heavy rains in
Pettimudy, in Kerala state, on August 8, 2020. (Photo by STR /
AFP)
a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan’s port city
of Karachi on August 7, 2020. (Photo by Asif HASSAN /
AFP)
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