Five of family killed in house collapse due to landslide in Himachal’s Kullu

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Head of family survives as he was sleeping in the verandah, while the rest of the members, including two children, were buried in the debris in remote Sharmani village.

Five members of a family were killed when a house collapsed following a landslide in the remote Sharmani village under Ghatu panchayat in the Nirmand sub division of Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh early on Tuesday, police said. Eight members of the family were buried in the debris of whom five died and three were rescued by villagers, the police said. All three survivors are hospitalised in Nirmand, sub divisional magistrate Manmohan Singh said.

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