2 women die in landslide

Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, July 19: In a tragic incident, two young women died after they got buried under landslide at village Kagot on Udhampur-Ramnagar  road, about 16 km from Ramnagar town, here this evening.
The deceased were identified as Vimla Devi (40), wife of Nikku Ram of Trilla Ramnagar and Pallo Devi (38), wife of Shallo Ram.
The incident took place around 6.45 pm when the victims were on their way to home after grazing their domestic animals in nearby forest area.
On getting information, SHO Ramnagar Sanjay Raina along with his team rushed to the spot and immediately started operation to rescue the victim. However, attempt to rescue didn’t yield result and dead bodies of both the women were recovered from the debris after more than an hour.
Later, the dead bodies were shifted to hospital for postmortem and other legal formalities.