Indian policemen, fire brigade personnel and rescue workers try to clear the debris at the site of a landslide at Lal Bahdur Shastri Nagar in Mumbai on September 4, 2009. Twelve people were killed and more than a dozen others injured after heavy overnight rains swept away slum dwellings in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said. About 15 to 20 homes, most of them illegal shanties, were washed away in a landslide in the Andheri district of the city, senior police officer Amitabh Gupta was quoted as saying by the domestic Press Trust of India news agency. Getty Images logo Getty Images 3 months ago

Indian policemen, fire brigade personnel and rescue workers try to clear the debris at the site of a landslide at Lal Bahdur Shastri Nagar in Mumbai on September 4, 2009. Twelve people were killed and more than a dozen others injured after heavy overnight rains swept away slum dwellings in the Indian city of Mumbai, police said. About 15 to 20 homes, most of them illegal shanties, were washed away in a landslide in the Andheri district of the city, senior police officer Amitabh Gupta was quoted as saying by the domestic Press Trust of India news agency.

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