Eleven dead in Kashmir landslide

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir say 11 construction workers have been killed in a landslide on the route of a holy trek.

The workers were sleeping in a small hut about 60km (37 miles) from Jammu when a landslide buried it.

The trek of pilgrims to the Hindu shrine of Vaishno Devi in the area has not been disturbed by the incident.

Landslides are common in India during the monsoons, when annual rains combine with melting snow from the Himalayas.

There has been torrential rainfall in the Jammu area of southern Kashmir during this rainy season.

"They (the construction workers) were sleeping in a small hut when the landslide happened. Eleven of them were killed and three are seriously injured," a local senior police official told the French news agency AFP.

At least 24 people died in a tunnel collapse at a dam project in the northern state of Uttaranchal earlier this week. The accident is thought to have been flood-related.

In recent weeks, parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh have been hit by heavy monsoon floods, leaving hundreds of people dead and millions homeless or stranded.