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A Kashmiri villager cries as she stands with others during rescue efforts following landslides due to heavy rainfall in the village of Laden at Chadoora some 40km west of Srinagar. (Tauseef Mustafa, AFP)
Srinagar - Emergency workers in Indian Kashmir have recovered 15 bodies including that of a three-week-old baby after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried several houses.
The baby was found in his mother's lap under tons of mud, police said on Tuesday, as the grim task of searching for bodies continued.
The victims all belonged to two families who after the rains had moved into what they thought was the stronger of two houses in Ladden village, 35km west of Kashmir's main city Srinagar.
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