Mudslide leaves 19 dead and around 50 missing in northeast India

Rescuers have found five more bodies after resuming clearing operations after a mudslide at a railroad construction site in India triggered by weeks of heavy downpours, officials said (AP)

Rescuers have found five more bodies after resuming clearing operations after a mudslide at a railroad construction site in India triggered by weeks of heavy downpours, officials said.

Soldiers joined more than 200 disaster response workers and police using earth-clearing equipment like bulldozers to rescue those buried under the debris in Noney, a town near Imphal, the capital of Manipur state.