MUMBAI: Rescue workers at the site of a huge landslide in western India last week said Thursday they had called off their search after finding 151 bodies.

Only eight survivors were rescued from the mud and debris after a hill gave way following heavy rains and came crashing down on a remote village in Maharashtra state on July 30.

The relief effort, which was hampered by ongoing monsoon downpours, was brought to a halt late Wednesday after the bodies of all those feared trapped were recovered, a spokeswoman for the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) told AFP.