16 Houses Destroyed

Sixteen houses were destroyed and around 150 people were rendered homeless after a massive fire broke out in a historic Malana village in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district on Wednesday, a disaster management official said

The number of deaths in the massive landslide that destroyed a row of houses of tea estate workers in the high range Idukki district of Kerala today climbed to 42 with 16 more bodies being recovered from the debris, as efforts were on amid continuing rains to locate those missing, officials said.

Sixteen houses were destroyed and around 150 people were rendered homeless after a massive fire broke out in a historic Malana village in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district on Wednesday, a disaster management official said

The number of deaths in the massive landslide that destroyed a row of houses of tea estate workers in the high range Idukki district of Kerala today climbed to 42 with 16 more bodies being recovered from the debris, as efforts were on amid continuing rains to locate those missing, officials said.