Rescuers were digging through debris looking for survivors after
landslides struck homes in Mirik, Kalimpong and Darjeeling towns in West
Bengal state, officials said.
More people are feared trapped under mounds of mud and debris.
Roads and communication links have been extensively damaged, officials said.
Incessant
rains in the area for the past couple of days caused the landslide,
district magistrate Anurag Srivastava told the BBC's Amitabha
Bhattasali.
Thousands of tourists are now stuck in the picturesque hilly area, our correspondent adds.
The
landslides have brought down a number of homes on the slopes of the
hills, news agency AFP quoted senior state police official Anuj Sharma
as saying.
Darjeeling district, which attracts thousands of
tourists every year, is about 600km (372 miles) north of the state
capital, Kolkata (Calcutta).
BBC
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