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India's record-breaking rains kill over 500
(AP)
Updated: 2005-07-29 07:10
Digging through rivers of mud and debris, rescuers scoured flood-ravaged
Bombay neighborhoods and outlying villages Thursday in search of survivors of
record-breaking rains that killed at least 513 people.
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| Indian workers lift a motor scooter after a road caved in due to
heavy downpours in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, July 28, 2005.
More than 500 people have been killed by floods and landslides in western
India and thousands remained stuck on Thursday in the nation's financial
capital, Bombay, following the worst ever monsoon rains in the region.
[Reuters] | While the rains have ended, leaving just an overcast sky, parts of the city
were hit by up to 94 centimeters (37 inches) of rain on Tuesday, the highest
one-day total in Indian history. Those rains, and the comparatively lighter
downpours that stretched into Wednesday, brought this city to a halt and
devastated wide swaths of surrounding Maharashtra state.
With a government-ordered holiday keeping workers at home, the region spent
Thursday trying to recover.
In the northern Bombay suburb of Saki Naka, relief workers and survivors
sifted through the rubble of a shanty town crushed when a water-soaked hill
collapsed on top of it. While the complete toll was unclear, at least 110 people
were killed, and more than 45 people were missing and presumed dead.
"It was terrible to pull out little babies from under boulders and mud," said
firefighter S. Shinde, wiping his brow with mud-caked hands. "The very young and
the old just didn't make it.
On Thursday, rescuers piled bodies onto trucks and
flagged down private cars to carry several dozens of injured people to
hospitals.
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