July 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least five people have died this Thursday due to a landslide in a town in the state of Maharashtra, in western India, where heavy rains have been recorded in recent days.
Local authorities have indicated that the incident occurred in the mountainous town of Irshalwadi, about 60 kilometers from Bombay, where fifty families reside.
“About 75 people have been evacuated and five have died so far,” said the deputy chief minister of the state, Devendra Fadnavis, on his Twitter account. Thus, he has lamented that the number of fatalities could continue to rise because some of the missing are under the rubble.
Preliminary information indicated that about a hundred people had been trapped. The incessant rainfall has caused the closure of schools and left roads flooded in the state.
