REUTERS/Amit Dave/File PhotoA woman covered with a cloth to protect herself from the heat walks on a road during a heatwave in Ahmedabad, India, May 29, 2024. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File PhotoIndia was battling on Wednesday extreme weather that caused severe heatwaves, landslides and floods, killing at least 11 people this week, among them a woman and her three daughters buried alive in a northeastern state, officials and media said. Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rain in the northeastern state of Assam killed at least six people on Tuesday night, officials said. "A landslide buried a woman and her three daughters alive," a state disaster management official, Siju Das, said by telephone. More than 30 people in the state have died since the end of May in floods and landslides brought by heavy rain, officials said.
