Rescuers have dug out 63 bodies and feared at least 200 people were trapped under a landslip that damaged 70 buildings in a slum in north Mumbai, local media reported Friday.

According to NDTV, this site accounts for the largest number of casualties at one spot in Mumbai which was hit by deadly downpour in the past four days.

The slum, built on the side of a hill in Saki Naka in the northern part of the metropolis, is made up of many old makeshift houses that shelter 40,000 people.

The rescuers have to pull down nine buildings to pave the way for machines to enter the disaster-hit areas since the narrow lanes between crowded houses are only 0.6 meter wide.

"It happened so suddenly. People could not even run out. And people generally stay indoors when it is raining. So a lot of people are trapped," said Ravi Sharma, whose house is next door to the collapsed houses.

Another resident Afzal had all his family members trapped under the rubble. "I had come out for some work and everything just collapsed behind me. My father, mother, brother and his wife are all inside," the boy said.

All the residents have been evacuated from houses at the top of the hill and those near the collapsed buildings.

The floods and landslips have claimed 273 lives in Mumbai and a total of 513 in Maharastra along west Indian coast in the past four days.

Source: Xinhua