(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared
to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of
the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, officials said on
Thursday, Trend reports citing Reuters .
Rescue workers battled heavy rains to pull out 19 survivors from
the rubble on Thursday morning after the landslide at a railway
construction site, where workers were sleeping in a makeshift camp
overnight, in the early hours.
The army has been drafted in to join the search, but officials
were not optimistic.
The chances of the remaining people surviving are very thin
considering the fact that the landslide occurred around 2 a.m.,
Haulianlal Guite, district magistrate of Noney district in Manipur,
told Reuters by telephone.
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