Gangtok, Aug 25 (PTI) Five persons including two minors were killed in two separate landslides incident in West Sikkim district, official sources said today. A cloud burst triggered a massive landslide at Samathang village, near Malbasey in West Sikkim in which three members of a family including two children were killed midnight last night, the sources said. Nirmaya Chettri (36) and her two daughters - Manju (16) and Anju (6) were killed while her husband Pratab Chettri was injured when the landslide destroyed their house, they said. In the second landslide incident two persons - Santa Bir Majhi and Sarki Maji working as casual labourers at a private construction site at Hee-Khola in West district were killed on the spot when loose muck from the construction site buried them in the site today, the sources said.
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