India rescuers hunt for survivors as monsoon toll hits 115

Torrential downpours have lashed India's western coast in recent days, leaving dozens missing near the financial capital Mumbai and causing the worst floods in decades in the resort state of Goa.

A landslide in the hillside village of Taliye, south of Mumbai, left just two concrete structures standing, flattening dozens of homes in a matter of minutes, witnesses said.

"It happened so quickly," said Dilip Pandey, who saw the disaster unfold on Thursday evening.

"There was a huge whooshing sound and the village just collapsed," said.

Emergency workers spent hours trying to find survivors, but only pulled out bodies, to the dismay of weeping relatives, with the landslide accounting for around a third of the 112 monsoon-related deaths recorded in Maharashtra state.

"People have lost virtually everything," said Goa's health minister Vishwajit Rane, pointing out that the state, which borders Maharashtra, had not seen such heavy rains in half a century.

He said rising waters had entered homes, damaging more than 1,000 houses.

Goa's floods were its worst in decades, according to its chief minister Pramod Sawant, who said the monsoons had caused "widespread damage" but no casualties.

Heavy rains also caused flooding in many regions of the southwestern state of Karnataka, killing three people and sparking the evacuation of 9,000, officials said.

Eight landslides were reported including one that derailed a train. Forecasters issued a red alert for coastal areas, predicting three more days of deluge.