The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Saturday retrieved 52 bodies from sites of landslides, rescued 1,800 stranded people, and evacuated 87 others to safer places in Maharashtra which have witnessed floods due to heavy rains.
The Indian naval ship Tabar reached St Petersburg on Thursday as a part of a five-day goodwill visit to Russia to participate in the 325th Navy Day celebrations of the Russian Navy to be held on July 25, Sunday.
In a series of disasters, over 70 people reportedly died in a dozen hill slides, landslides, house-crashes, and other incidents after torrential rains shook Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Satara, and other districts of Maharashtra, with the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard rushing to rescue the marooned populace, on Friday.
Although the water began receding in some parts, after the rains battered Maharashtra for the last four days, the landslides continued and the death toll in rain-related incidents crossed 50, with the death of three people in house collapse in Govandi in North East Mumbai on Friday.
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