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NEW DELHI — Hopes are fading of finding scores of people still missing three days after a landslide in western India buried a village, killing at least 76 people, an official said Saturday.
Intermittent rain over the past few days had turned the site of the landslide into a swamp, making it extremely difficult for rescue workers to locate bodies in the mud, said Alok Awasthy, the official in charge of the rescue operation.
Wednesday's landslide engulfed Malin village, located in Pune district of Maharashtra state. Rescue workers have pulled 76 bodies from the more than 15 feet of heavy mud and debris that submerged the village.
Awasthy said at least 88 people were missing and that hopes of finding them alive were fading.
PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius' brother Carl was “badly hurt” in a road accident Friday night when his car was involved in a head-on collision on a highway in South Africa, the brothers' uncle Arnold Pistorius said.The crash in northern South Africa was “serious” but Carl is now “out of danger,” Arnold Pistorius said. He said Carl had been transferred to a hospital in the capital, Pretoria.“Carl's vehicle was hit head-on by another car that had swerved from the opposite side of the highway into the oncoming traffic,” Arnold Pistorius said in a statement Saturday.South African media reported that Oscar Pistorius' older brother had sustained multiple fractures and was to undergo surgery. He was in an intensive care unit with fractures to his right arm, leg and left foot, television station eNCA reported. Another South African media outlet said Carl was in a critical condition.
PIRAEUS, Greece — A Greek navy frigate carrying embassy staff and nearly 200 people from Greece, China and other countries evacuated from the conflict in Libya returned early Saturday to a port near Athens.Passengers on the frigate Salamis described a deteriorating security situation in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with frequent power and water cuts.The Greek Defense Ministry said the ship transported 77 people from Greece, 78 from China, 10 from Britain, seven from Belgium, one each from Russia and Albania.The Greek evacuation followed similar action by a number of European countries, as fighting between rival militias in recent weeks.Poland's Foreign Ministry said Friday it has evacuated two dozen Poles and citizens of two other countries. All of Poland's diplomats have now left the country. Britain says it will suspend work at its consulate in Tripoli once it has completed assisting the departure of British nationals.“We were hearing explosions all the time, but the fighting was on the outskirts of Tripoli,” said Mustafa Avocat, a Greek-Libyan accountant, who was holding his crying infant son, moments after stepping off the Greek frigate.
