DHAKA: Rescue workers on Sunday discovered more bodies in the mud and debris of a devastating landslide in western India, taking the confirmed death toll to 92.

An Indian official said, reports The Straits Times.

With dozens more villagers still missing, rescue workers kept up their grim search for victims of the landslide that destroyed a remote village in Maharashtra state on July 30.

‘So far we have found 92 bodies and eight survivors. But we expect to find 68 more bodies,’ Alok Awasthi, commandant of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), told media.

‘About 60 percent of the area has been cleared and more than 50 percent of the rescue effort is done,’ he said.

Rescue workers using diggers and other heavy machinery continued to be hampered by heavy rain, which is thought to have triggered the landslide, he said.

BDST: 1846 HRS, AUG 03, 2014