NEW DELHI: Rescuers continued digging despite “very slim chances” of finding any more people alive in the mud and debris from a major landslide in western India, where 73 have been killed.
Seventy-three bodies and eight survivors have now been pulled from the site where a village once stood in a remote part of western Maharashtra state, but incessant rains, marshy terrain and strong winds have hampered rescue efforts.
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