Rescue mission: National Disaster Response Force personnel evacuating stranded people using a temporary zip line laid across a broken bridge near Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. — AP
Rescuers were scouring India’s northeastern tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling for missing people a day after landslides triggered by heavy downpours killed at least 24, officials said.
Teams of Indian army and disaster force rescuers were searching for the missing who are feared trapped under mounds of debris, said Udayan Guha, West Bengal state development minister.
