Death toll passes 100 after landslides and flooding sparked by India monsoon

National Disaster Response Force personnel rescue people stranded in floodwaters in Kolhapur, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Friday, July 23, 2021. Landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains hit parts of western India, killing at least 32 people and leading to the overnight rescue of more than 1,000 other people trapped by floodwaters, officials said Friday. (AP Photo)

Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain have hit parts of western India, killing more than 100 people, officials and news reports said.

The dead included 54 in four landslides in the Raigad and Ratnagiri districts in western Maharashtra state on Thursday and Friday, according to district collector Nidhi Chaudhary and state government official Sagar Pathak.