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Since Thursday, the west coast of the country has been flooded by heavy rains.
Officials said the death toll from floods and landslides caused by the monsoon rains in India climbed to 124 on Sunday, and rescuers are looking for dozens of others missing.
Since Thursday, the west coast of the country has been flooded by heavy rains, and the Indian Meteorological Department warned that there will be more downpours in the coming days.
In Maharashtra, 114 people were killed on Thursday, more than 40 of them were killed in a large landslide that hit Taliye, a hillside village in southern Mumbai.
Relatives of villager Jayram Mahaske are still trapped. He told AFP that when the landslide occurred, “many people were washed away while trying to escape”.
Local residents told AFP that it razed dozens of houses to the ground within minutes, leaving only two concrete structures standing and cutting off electricity.
Rescuers are clearing mud and debris, looking for 99 people who are still missing.
“My entire team is now involved in rescue operations,” Rajesh Yavale, an inspector of the National Disaster Response Force, who is responsible for coordinating rescue operations in the village, told AFP on Saturday.
He said that many corpses were washed away and some were found stuck in the bushes downstream.
More than a dozen people were killed in two separate landslides south of Mumbai.
In parts of Chiplun, after 24 hours of uninterrupted rain flooding roads and houses, the water level rose to nearly 20 feet (6 meters) on Thursday.
According to reports, 8 patients in a local Covid-19 hospital also died after the power supply to the ventilator was cut off by the flood.
In neighbouring Goa, a woman drowned and the state government told the Press Trust of India that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant called it “the worst flood since 1982.”
In the coastal plains across the states of Maharashtra and Goa, after the river burst its banks, the flood level still rose.
The terrified residents climbed up the roofs and upstairs to escape the swelling sea.
Officials said that in Karnataka further south, the death toll rose from three to nine overnight, and four others were missing.
The power supply to 11 affected areas was interrupted, and officials added that large tracts of land had lost crops.
Authorities said that before dawn on Friday, a building in a slum in Mumbai collapsed, killing four people.
Less than a week after the incident, at least 34 people were killed when several houses in the city were crushed by collapsed walls and landslides.
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