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29 March 2024

14 die in landslides in northern India

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By AFP

At least 14 people in northern India were killed on Saturday by landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains, a senior district official said.

The landslides occurred in three separate districts of Uttarakhand, the official told AFP in the state capital Dehradun.

"Fourteen bodies have been recovered," said Piyush Rautela, executive director of the government-run Disaster Mitigation Centre of Uttarakhand.

Five people died in the district of Almora when their house collapsed due to a landslide. Five other people died in Nainital district and four others were killed in Haridwar.