Landslide survivor Pramila Lende holds her son Rudra who was injured in the same landslide, at a hospital in Manchar, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, India, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. One of the few people pulled alive from the rubble in the hours after the landslide were Lende and her 3-month-old son. Lende said she was feeding her son when she heard the roar of earth and mud ripping down the hillside. Rescuers searching for dozens of people still missing after the landslide. Chances of finding anyone alive were increasingly slim. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (The Associated Press)
NEW DELHI – Hopes are fading of finding scores of people still missing three days after a landslide in western India buried a village, killing at least 76 people.
Alok Awasthy, the official in charge of the rescue operation, said Saturday that intermittent rain over the past few days had turned the site of the landslide into a swamp, making it extremely difficult for rescue workers to locate bodies in the mud.
Wednesday's landslide engulfed Malin village, in Pune district of Maharashtra state. Rescue workers have pulled 76 bodies from the more than 4.5 meters (15 feet) of heavy mud and debris that submerged the village.
Awasthy said at least 88 people were missing and that hopes of finding them alive were fading.
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