Arunachal Pradesh: 2 students killed, 3 injured as wall of hostel caves in after landslide in Tawang
ITANAGAR | July 12, 2019:
Due to incessant rain, two girl students were killed and two others were severely injured after a wall collapsed at Namtsering under Dudungkhar circle in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday
The incident took place at the hostel of government residential upper primary school, when the two girls were sleeping in the hostel at around 3.15am. The wall of the hostel building couldn't resist the landslide that occurred due to incessant rain in the area for the last many days.
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There were 19 girl students sleeping in the hostel when the incident took place at around 3.15am. The warden, teaching staff and locals from a nearby village helped in the rescue of other students.
DIPRO Tawang in a statement said that the two girls students lost their lives while two were seriously injured and one suffered a minor injury when the hostel wall collapsed on the sleeping children early this morning at the Government residential upper primary school, Namtsering village under Dudungkhar circle of Lungla Subdivision
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Landslides, triggered by incessant rains over the past couple of days in, have disrupted road communication in several parts of Arunachal Pradesh and hit normal life.
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