At least 10 people have died after a massive landslide hit a village in Maharashtra's Raigad district. The official said that more than 100 people have been rescued, but many more are feared to be trapped. Four teams of National Disaster Response Force i.e. NDRF are engaged in rescue work. There are about 50 houses in the village, out of which 17 got buried under the landslide. The landslide occurred after torrential rains in the area.
The village is 6 km from Morbe Dam, which supplies water to Navi Mumbai. Minister Uday Samant said the rescued people have been admitted to a hospital in Navi Mumbai. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde reached the spot and spoke to the personnel engaged in rescue operations. He told reporters there that this village was not in the list of landslide prone villages.
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Priority to rescue people trapped under debris
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde visited the spot. He said that now our priority is to rescue the people trapped under the debris. Along with this, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has also ordered the top officials that there should be no shortage of any kind in the treatment of the victims.
Raj Thackeray targeted the local administration
Raj Thackeray has expressed his condolences by tweeting on this whole incident. He said in a tweet, "The incident of landslide in a village in Irshalwadi of Khalapur taluka in Raigad district is very sad, it is being told that the rescue operation is going on on a war footing, it is my prayer that people get out of it safely. Actually, I did not want to talk about this immediately after such an incident, however, I will just say that if the district administration cannot predict where landslides may happen, then what kind of administration is it? However, I will talk about this in detail later, but for now I wish everyone to be safe".
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