Guwahati/Silchar, May 18
Ten persons were killed in landslides in Karimganj and Hailakandi districts in Barak Valley in Assam on Wednesday following incessant rain.
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 persons. Among the victims are a man, his wife and their daughter and two sons.
The area has been hit by continuous rain for the past three days.
In the neighbouring Hailakandi district, two incidents of landslide killed four persons at Bilaipur 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.
The NDRF and police have been engaged in rescue and relief operations. — PTI
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