who were handing out food and water to countless people walking home.”On Tuesday, the city received an unprecedented 37in of rain in a day – more than most places in the world get in a year.. At least 56 people died in a landslide in a single Bombay slum yesterday. Outside the city, rescuers were digging with their bare hands for the bodies of at least 100 who are missing since their homes were buried under a mudslide in the village of Juigaon, which is 95 miles south of Bombay.”The chances of finding any survivors from Jui are bleak,” said Suresh Kakine, an official with Mahrashtra’s state relief operations.At the height of the flooding, when all the city’s transport collapsed, more than 150,000 people were stranded One survivor in the city, Sonali Mahajan, e-mailed the BBC “I survived last night thanks to local residents … I think the fact the UN did not bring a single doctor or ambulance with them on this mission is extraordinary ­ surely you would do that whether you were targeting criminal gangs or civilians? It is interesting that so many victims were shot in the head. I think the reason they did not bring ambulances is that they were not shooting to wound, they were shooting to kill.” The raid took place against a backdrop of violence in Haiti ahead of autumn elections. Authorities say much of the violence is perpetrated by criminal gangs with links to the former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

More than 500 people have died in flooding and landslides after the heaviest monsoon rains ever recorded in India. More than half of the deaths have been in Bombay, India’s largest city and the powerhouse of the world’s second fastest-growing economy. It said: “Subsequently, these elements attributed these atrocious acts to Minustah.” At UN headquarters yesterday, Jean-Marie Guehenno, undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, asked for specialist troops for Haiti. “I have to acknowledge the forces we have do not have the kind of very specialised capacity … Of them, around 20 were women under the age of 18.” Minustah claims it received “unconfirmed information” that criminal gangs were seen killing civilians after its operation. Christophe Fournier, M?cins Sans Fronti?s, which has a clinic close to Cit?oleil, said: “On that day we treated 27 people for gunshot wounds. The boy’s father said they were killed in their house after UN forces threw smoke grenades.

His testimony is to be included in a documentary Pina is producing based on the footage. Among the dead were four-year-old Stanley Romelus, who was shot in the head; his mother, Sonia, and his one-year-old brother, Nelson. He described the shooting as a “massacre”: “Based on witnesses’ testimony and the number of bodies we were able to confirm, we believe that at least 23 people were killed,” he said. David Welsh, of the US Labour/Human Rights Delegation to Haiti, was at a conference in Port-au-Prince that weekend.