Woman buried to death in landslide
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, September 14 2012:
A woman was buried to death when the roof of her house collapsed following a landslide in Thoubal Moijing Chingya Leikai in the wee hours of today.
The deceased woman has been identified as Thambalmacha Begum (42), w/o Md Gayajuddin of Thoubal Moijing Chingya Leikai.
She was a mother of four daughters.
Thabalmacha was sleeping alone in the house when the landslide occurred and she was found under the debris of her house at around 3:30 am after a JCB cleared the debris.
According to reports received from her family members, the house of Thambalmacha was built around three years back at the foothills where land had been excavated.
Just above the house, on the hills, a new road is being constructed.
With the drainage system of the newly constructed road not properly made, continuous rainfall in the last couple of days led to crumbling down of a portion of the cliff over the house.
Another villager who came to the rescue of Thabalmacha sustained injuries.
He has been identified as Md Hussian.