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Bulldozer clears the road after landslide in Kalimpong, Darjeeling. On 30 Jun/01 July 2015 torrential rains lashed Kalimpong dumping 227mm of rain in a 8hr period. This triggered numerous landslides both within the municipal limits and in the sub-division. Many people have been killed in a series of landslides caused by heavy rain in the three sub-divisions of Darjeeling district since Tuesday night. Twenty-one deaths occurred in Mirik alone, where another 13 people were also reported missing, officials in West Bengal's Disaster Management Department said. The remaining 17 died in Kalimpong-1 and 2, Lava, Sukhia block and Gorubathan, they said. The landslides in 25 places in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong sub-divisions also caused extensive damage to NH-10 and NH-55, cutting off road l