Land slide kills one at Moijing Awang Chingya Leikai
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 14 2012:
A woman who was sleeping inside her house was killed when she was buried by mounds of earth sliding down from a nearby hill slope at Moijing Awang Chingya Leikai, Thoubal district at about 2.15 am today, reports our correspondent.
The victim has been identified as Thambalmacha Bibi (42) w/o Md Giyasuddin.
According to information culled from the spot, the casualty could have been more but fortunately the other family members had were away at the residence of a candidate who contested in the just concluded Panchayat election.
After struggling for hours to remove the piles of earth, the body was found at 3.30 am.
Thambalmacha was sleeping alone the fateful night.
She left behind her husband, two sons and four daughters.
Their house was built on a hill slope and the sliding mounds of earth have buried their eastern room and verandah for about 10 feet deep.
The land slide also caused damages to many articles of the house.