NEW DELHI: At least 20 people, including children, have died and scores have been injured as relentless downpours triggered massive landslides across the Mirik and Darjeeling hills in West Bengal on Sunday. Homes were swept away, roads severed, and hundreds of tourists stranded, officials said. The national disaster response force (NDRF) and district authorities are coordinating rescue operations in the worst-hit areas. North Bengal development minister Udayan Guha said that the situation is "alarming," according to news agency PTI. "As of now the death toll is 20. It is likely to go up. I am on my way to the area," he said. According to NDRF, Mirik bore the brunt of the disaster, with 11 fatalities recorded. Seven injured individuals have been rescued from landslide-affe

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