Fire personnel, in hard hats, and other people do rescue operations at Saki Naka, a northern suburb of Bombay, India, July 28, 2005. Rescuers searched with bare hands Thursday for survivors buried under debris after a small hill crashed on a group of huts. Then unusually heavy downpours in a rainy season that lasts from June through September already has claimed more than 700 lives.
Firefighters look on as an earth mover clears debris at Saki Naka, a northern suburb of Bombay, India, July 28, 2005.
Firefighters prepare to retrieve scooters after a road caved in due to rains in Ahmadabad, India, July 28, 2005.
People hold on to a rope to cross a street after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
People walk through water after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
A mother and child walk through flooded streets after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
Stranded commuters walk on railway tracks after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
People walk through water after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
A train is stranded in floodwaters in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
People walk through flooded streets after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
Chunnezhath Babu and his wife sit near their totally ruined house after heavy rains and winds hit the coastal area of Vypin in Cochin, India, July 27, 2005.
People walk through flooded streets after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
Hussain, 80, and his wife Ayesha Bibi, 70, sit inside their makeshift house as another man, right, looks on in the coastal area of Vypin in Cochin, India, July 27, 2005, after their house was destroyed by heavy rains and winds.
People walk on submerged railroad tracks after heavy rains hit Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
A boy covers his head with a plastic sheet to shield himself from heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
French student walk through a flooded street after heavy rains hit Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
People walk through a flooded street after heavy rains in Bombay, India, July 27, 2005.
A man walks through rain at the Marina Beach in Madras, India, July 24, 2005. It was an unusually heavy downpour in a rainy season that usually lasts from June through September.
A cyclist pedals through flood water in Bombay, India, July 21, 2005. Heavy rains lashed India's financial capital, flooding low-lying areas and partially disrupting rail and road transport.
A villager looks at his flooded house at Ghagrapara village, 44 miles west of Gauhati, India, July 20, 2005.