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| 'Dozens trapped' by Indian landslide | 'Dozens trapped' by Indian landslide |
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| At least 40 houses have been buried and up to 150 people are feared trapped after a landslide hit a village in western India, officials say. | At least 40 houses have been buried and up to 150 people are feared trapped after a landslide hit a village in western India, officials say. |
| Teams of rescue workers are on their way to the village of Malin of Pune district in Maharashtra state where the incident happened. | |
| An official said residents had already begun clearing the debris to look for survivors. | An official said residents had already begun clearing the debris to look for survivors. |
| Reports said that heavy rains had triggered the landslide. | Reports said that heavy rains had triggered the landslide. |
| Landslides are common in some parts of India during the monsoon rains, which run from June to September. | |
| An official of India's National Disaster Response Force told the BBC that 100 rescue workers were on the way to the area. | |
| Senior local official Prabhakar Deshmukh told the Associated Press news agency that rescue workers were being hampered by rains and poor roads leading to the Ambegaon area where Malin is located, some 60km (37 miles) from the city of Pune south-east of Mumbai, India's commercial capital. | |
| More than 500 people died and several thousand people remain missing after floods and landslides hit the northern state of Uttarakhand in June last year. |