43 Dead in India Landslides

(AP)  Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 43 people in three remote villages in northern India, a police official said Sunday.

Twenty bodies were pulled from the debris after the landslide Saturday buried the villages in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state, said S.M. Shamim, a paramilitary force commander.

He said 43 people "were buried alive under the debris."

Police and volunteers were digging through mud and rocks Sunday to recover the bodies of 23 others, he said.

Pithoragarh, in the Himalayan foothills, is about 310 miles northeast of the Indian capital, New Delhi.

Extensive deforestation has made the region prone to landslides during monsoon rains.

[John_Merritt]

That has always bothered me, when the citizenry becomes secondary to profit. To denude hillsides of the vegetation overlying villages where people live; and knowing full well torrential rains will come one day. How can anyone know, in good conscience, what they are doing is right when they leave people exposed to dangers beyond imagination? It is mind boggling to say the least.

[Solarrays247]

It is quite evident to me, John_Merritt, that given the state of our planet today, "good conscience" is not a valued commodity.

Peace.

[speakinup22]

I suspect it was ignorance and or in hope that someone else would take care of the problem. Obviously the people living below the potential landslide saw the potential as much as those that created the deforestation in the first place (if it wasn't them to start with.)


But as many liberals probably would believe, Bush did it.