Rescue workers battled Saturday to retrieve the bodies of those killed during flooding and mudslides in India.
Fresh rain and falling boulders hampered the rescuers who have so far pulled 26 bodies from the debris of a mudslide that wiped out a railroad construction site in India's northeast, officials said.
Rescue work is expected to continue for a couple of days in rugged, hilly terrain with little hope of finding survivors among the 37 people missing since Wednesday night.
Twenty-one of the confirmed 26 dead were members of the Territorial Army, rescue officials said.
(AP)
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