India landslide death toll climbs to 92

Rescue workers Sunday discovered more bodies in the mud and debris of a devastating landslide in western India, taking the confirmed death toll to 92, an official said. With dozens more villagers still missing, rescue workers kept up their grim search for victims of the landslide which destroyed a remote village in Maharashtra state on July 30. ‘So far we have found 92 bodies and eight survivors. But we expect to find 68 more bodies,’ Alok Awasthi, commandant of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), said. ‘About 60 per cent of the area has been cleared and more than 50 per cent of the rescue effort is done,’ he said, according to AFP.