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Mudslide kills five paramilitary troops in northeast India

| Updated: June 30, 2018 21:21:01


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Five Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed and another six injured when huge boulders rolled down on their bus following a mudslide triggered by monsoon rains in India’s remote northeast, police said Saturday.

The bus was carrying 20 soldiers on a narrow mountainous stretch to their nearby camp on Friday after a training exercise in Lower Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh state, said police officer S Singpho.

A helicopter evacuated the injured to a nearby hospital, he said.

The region is nearly 600 kilometres (375 miles) north of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, reports the Associated Press.

This is the second mudslide-related accident in the state within five days. On June 24, five workers were buried alive when a wall of a building under construction collapsed on them.

Mudlslides are common in the June-September monsoon season in India.

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