Mudslides kill 14 in northern India

Mudslides triggered by heavy rains killed 14 workers sleeping in a tin shed near a Hindu shrine in northern Indian today as the death toll from the monsoon season across South Asia rose to at least 1,908.

The workers were killed in the mountainous Dhaba Moth area near the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu-Kashmir state and three injured workers were pulled from the debris, police Superintendent M.L. Mehra said.