16 Killed in Northeastern India landslide

 At least 16 people were killed in a landslide in a remote village near India's northeastern border with China, police said Friday. 
Heavy rains in Arunachal Pradesh state's Tawang district triggered the landslide early Friday, an official at the police control room of Tawang said. 
Boulders and mud came sliding down a hillside and buried a temporary settlement of labourers who were working at the construction site of a hotel at Famla village on the outskirts of Tawang town, police said. 
Sixteen bodies had been found and more people were feared buried in the rubble. Rescue operations were ongoing. 
Tawang is located in the Himalayas. 
Landslides brought on by heavy pre-monsoon rains had also been reported from other parts of the region, the India Today news channel reported. 
Electricity had been cut off and roads blocked in some areas and houses damaged.

Source: QNA