Four buried alive in landslide in Tiruvannamalai

Rescue ops - aided by a team of experts from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai - are ongoing, but have been hampered by heavy rain and the threat of another boulder balanced precariously further uphill.

A second landslide hit the Tamil Nadu temple town of Tiruvannamalai Monday afternoon, a day after a first led to a boulder falling on a residential building and trapping seven people, of whom at least four have died and three are still trapped.

The first took place Sunday at 4.30 pm on the lower slopes of the famous Annamalaiyar Hill after heavy rainfall - courtesy Cyclone Fengal, which crossed the coast Saturday afternoon near capital Chennai - battered the district.