Excelsior Correspondent
RAMBAN, Dec 3: A landslide hit a road construction site in the district today killing one person while another went missing, a police officer said.
The landslide occurred this evening near Seri-Seencha village during the construction of a link road, trapping a worker and a civilian passerby, the officer added.
Rescuers immediately swung into action and recovered the body of Abdul Rashid, son of Abdul Rehman, a resident of Bagna village, who was working as a machine helper at the site, he said, adding that Farooq Ahmad, son of Abdul Gani, a resident of Kuneri Balihote , who was passing by was reportedly buried under the debris and is still missing. The efforts were on to trace him, he stated.
The construction work was suspended temporarily after the incident, he said, adding the link road, after completion, would connect over a dozen villages in the upper reaches of Ramban to the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
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