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Massive mudslides leave 64 dead in Bombay

Torrential rain wreaks havoc in India’s commercial capital
Rescue workers cany a body extricated from under huge boulders in a landslide on July 12 when an entire hillock caved in due to torrential rains in Bombay. —AFP photo
BOMBAY. July 13: More than 60 people have been killed by giant mudslides and flooding in India's financial hub of Bombay. where torrential monsoon rains wreaked havoc for the second straight day Thursday, reports AFP.
Among the dead. 58 were victims of Wednesday's massive mudslide in the northern Bombay suburb of Ghatkopar. Three others were killed in a smaller mudslide elsewhere.
Rescuers at the site of the Ghatkopar tragedy, where entire families have been wiped out. said the death toll was almost certain to rise.
"We estimate it will take at least one more day to clear all the rubble." said police inspector R A Pawar.
“We have widened the approach road to the site of the mudslide and have finally been able to bring in cranes to move
the larger boulders and rocks.
"We fear that we will find more people buried underneath."
The majority of those killed were slum-dwellers living on a hillside.
Rescue efforts were hampered throughout the day by continued heavy rains that threatened to trigger further landslides.
Another mudslide flattened a nearby slum, named Parksite, killing two men and a woman.
Police said three other people had died since Wednesday in Incidents directly related to the torrential rainfall.
In another northern suburb. Bhandup. 1 1 houses collapsed, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The rains disrupted transport. power supplies and communications systems across the city for the second straight day
"We have had to switch off supplies to several areas where the water level is dangerously close to transformers/ said a spokesman for the Bombay Suburban Electric Supply Co.
Some 70.000 slum-dwellers have been evacuated from north Bombay which recorded 286 millimeters 111.5 inches) of rain in the 24 hours up to 8:30 am Thursday (0300 GMT I
Slum dwellers account for 60 per cent of the city's population of 12 million people.
The forecast for the next 24 hours was for "heavy to very heavy rain."
Schools and colleges were given a holiday, but opened as shelters for the stranded and homeless.
So heavy was the rainfall that thousands of people who left for work on Wednesday were still struggling to go back home on Thursday.
India’s state-run railways said in a communique in New Delhi that train sendees to Bombay from the rest of the country had been suspended
Office workers, who predominantly use the suburban rail network were stuck in trains for up to five hours with flooded tracks making it impossible for them to walk to safety.
The fire brigade said strong winds uprooted scores of trees, exacerbating the traffic problems.
“We have been receiving distress calls about people marooned in the water, short circuits and uprooted trees.' said a fire brigade spokesman.
Meteorologists said the rains were caused by a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal and the eastern coast of India.