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Rain-Soaked Hill Collapses on Huts in Bombay, India

HeadlineJul 13, 2000

At least fifty people are dead and thirty-eight injured after a rain-soaked hill collapsed on tin and mud huts in Bombay, India. Officials think another fifty people may be buried under the debris. Survivors say the death toll is high because most people had stayed indoors due to the monsoon rain.

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