At least 11 people were killed in landslides in Karimganj and Hailakandi districts of Barak Valley in Assam, following intermittent rains today. Five members of a family were killed in a landslide at Sonachirra in Karimganj district in the wee hours, a police official said.
The landslip, triggered by incessant rains, buried a house on the edge of a hill killing the five. Among the victims are a man, his wife, their daughter and two sons.
In another incident in neighbouring Hailakandi district, three incidents of landslide killed four persons at Bilaipur, one person in Nalachhoda and a six-year old boy at Ramchandi area, police officials said. The debris fell on two houses where the victims were sleeping early in the morning, they said. NDRF and police have been engaged in rescue and relief operations.
