Indian mudslides kill at least eight

AT least eight people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India’s remote northeast region, officials said.

Nazreen Ahmed, a senior administrative official in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, said that nearly 200,000 people in the district were cut from the rest of the state, as roads and bridges leading to it were either blocked by landslides or washed away.