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Updated on 10 November 2009

Source PA News

A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains has killed more than 40 people in southern India.

It demolished nearly 300 tin-roofed mud huts in the Ooty and Coonoor region of Tamil Nadu state.

Rescuers found 42 bodies in the debris and eight injured people were taken to hospital.

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