MALIN, India — When the storm came to this tiny village on Wednesday morning, with a resounding blast and mere seconds of a downpour so heavy it could not be called rain, Dilip Bhagwa Lembeg was walking to his paddy fields.

He heard the blast, looked up to the hill behind him, and saw that the mango trees on the hilltop were trembling. Seconds later, most of the houses in the area were gone.

“I saw the whole village disappear under this mud,” he said Saturday, sitting on a tree stump halfway up the hill, looking impassively on to the rescue mission below, where dozens of officials with the National Disaster Response Force supervised a slow-moving excavation.

When asked where his home had been, he gestured to the farthest bulldozer, pushing its way through the thick mud that had likely enveloped his wife, mother, six daughters, and one son — all missing — as well as the 82 bodies that had been recovered by Saturday evening by the rescue mission. Mr. Lembeg, 42, said he would watch the rescue efforts until all the bodies were recovered. “I’ll find my people here,” he said.