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Landslide Kills 46 In North India [1]

At least forty-six people were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday.

Three villages in the hilly Pithoragarh district were swept away in the landslide after a cloudburst on Saturday, local police official M.S. Sathnam said.

Publication Date: 
10/08/2009
Planet Ark (Australia) [2]
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Natural Disasters [3], Landslides [4], India [5], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [6]

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