Kasganj (UP): Four persons, including three women and a girl, were killed and five others were injured when a mound of mud caved in Kotwali Nagar area of Kasganj district here in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, police sources said here.
Police sources said that the incident took place in Mohanpura where women of nearby villages had gone to dig yellow mud on the occasion of Dev Uthani Ekadashi. "While they were digging the mud the mound caved in and several women were buried under it," they said.
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#WATCH | Uttar Pradesh: A large mound of soil collapsed in Kasganj, trapping a few women under it. The women had come there to collect soil for their houses. Details awaited. pic.twitter.com/0X412QN5K6
After getting the information District Magistrate Megha Rupam and Superintendent of Police (SP) Aparna Rajat Kaushik and a rescue and relief operation was launched under their supervision. "During the rescue operation some women were pulled out of the debris and taken to the Etah district hospital where three women and a girl were declared dead," they said.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rajesh Bharati said that rescue operation continues as there is a possibility that some women are still buried under the debris.