Manipur landslide kills 2, traps 50 as debris blocks river flow

In the hill country of Manipur's Noney district, the earth shifted without warning on a Wednesday night, swallowing a railway construction camp and the lives within it. Two workers were confirmed dead by morning, with some fifty others feared buried beneath the debris at Tupul yard — a place where human ambition to connect distant places had met the indifferent force of the mountain. The catastrophe compounded itself: the same landslide that took lives also dammed the Ijei River, transforming a construction tragedy into a gathering flood threat for all who live downstream, as the monsoon seaso