At least ten people were killed in a landslide near Bhalukpong along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border even as search is on for five more people, who have remained missing till filing of this report.
The deceased includes three women and four minor girls, police said.
The incident took place at Bhalukpong in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. The police said that incessant rains for last few days triggered the landslide on Friday wee hours and it buried under ground the two houses where the victims have been living.
“While five bodies have been recovered so far, works are on to recover the other bodies. The houses were located on the foothills of a hillock which caved in burying the houses. Several other houses in the locality also got damaged,” said West Kameng Superintendent of Police A Koan while talking to The Pioneer.
“We have been able to recover five bodies so far including the body of a children,” Koan said.
In April this year, a major landslide hit Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh and swept away a complete camp of the construction labourers burying alive 19 of them.