Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday.
Twenty-four people died Sunday as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in Almorah district in Uttrakhand state, said Prashant Kumar Tamta, a state government spokesman.
Several people were swept away by floodwaters or buried when ho
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/landslides-flooding-pummel-northern-india
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/asian-wall-street-journal-hong-kong
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landslides
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/uttaranchal-uttarakhand
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tehri
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/monsoons
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indian-meteorological-department-imd
