Three members of a family were feared trapped as their house was buried in a landslide in Maharashtra’s Pune district in the early hours of Monday, police said.
The incident occurred at Patan village in Maval tehsil, they said, adding that a rescue operation was under way.
“Due to heavy rain, three landslides occurred in a remote village in Maval. In one of the incidents, a house was buried under the debris. It is suspected that three people were inside the house when the landslide occurred in the early hours of Monday," Deputy Superintendent of Police (Lonavala division), Gajanan Tompe said.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), police and local teams were carrying out the rescue operation, he said.
In a related development, an NDRF team rescued 37 passengers stranded in a private bus after waterlogging near Ghorawadi railway station in Maval tehsil, another official said.
Meanwhile, a lane was re-opened on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, which was shut due to the landslide, for the traffic heading to Pune, according to the highway police.
“The carriageway from Pune to Mumbai remains shut for vehicular movement. The old Pune-Mumbai Highway is also closed due to waterlogging at several stretches," Superintendent of Police (Highway) Shivaji Pawar said.
