Rescue work is still going on at the site.
61 bodies have been recovered from under the debris in Malin, two days after a massive landslide hit the tiny village located 130 kilometres from Pune in Maharashtra.
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90-100 people are still feared trapped under the mud. Rescue work is going on at the site but hopes of finding them alive are fading for grief-struck villagers.
The town has turned into a mass funeral ground; cremations are taking place alongside search operations for those missing. Many of those killed in the landslide have no one to mourn for them as entire families have been wiped out.
Rescuers have only been able to save eight people, who were brought out alive. Several children are among those killed in the mishap.
Dilip, 45, lost his entire family in the tragedy, including his eight children. "My children were getting ready to go to school when the landslide struck. None of them stood a chance. The youngest was just five years old," he says.
Rescue operations, led by teams of the National Disaster Response Force, have been slowed down by relentless rains.
It is an agonising wait for some villagers, who have kept a vigil at the site for hours, hoping for some good news about their family members.
Several children, who were waiting for a bus to take them to school, were trapped under the debris.
Most of the bodies have started decomposing. It is becoming difficult to identify the bodies, say locals.
Almost the entire village had disappeared in the mishap and is now buried under several feet of slush.
Malin has no mobile connectivity and it gets barely two to three hours of power supply every day.
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