Landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains may have trapped 150 people or more in a village in western India, a senior official said Wednesday.
“There are reports that up to 30 to 40 houses have been affected,” said Suresh Jadhav, a district administrator in Maharashtra state.
About 40 ambulances and 200 volunteers were sent to the scene to help with the rescue effort, he said.
The landslides were reported around midnight in Malin, a village in Maharashtra’s Pune district near Mumbai.
A cargo train derailed Tuesday and crashed into a passenger train near Moscow, killing five people and injuring 15, according to preliminary information from the scene, Russia’s Interior Ministry said.
The accident took place at Naro-Fominsk, southwest of Moscow, the Emergency Ministry said.
The cargo train crashed into the last three carriages of a passenger train that was traveling from Moscow to Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. A total of 394 tickets were purchased for the passenger train, the Interior Ministry said.