Landslide kills minor girl in Manipur’s Jiribam

k sarojkumar sharma / Aug 7, 2024, 04:43 IST

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Landslide kills minor girl in Manipur’s Jiribam

Imphal: A 10-year-old girl was killed and four other members of her family were injured, with one of them being critical, after a heavy landslide buried parts of their house in Manipur’s Jiribam district, along the Assam-Mizoram border, in the early hours of Tuesday.
The incident occurred at around 3.30 am at Ahmedabad Part 1, under Sonapur gram panchayat, killing Nurmola Begum, Jiribam police sources said.The injured have been identified as Sushmita Begum (8), Rani Begum (34), Md Salim uddin (16) Gusara Begum (18), sources said, adding that two other members of the family escaped unhurt.

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