GUWAHATI: Seven Territorial Army personnel were among eight people killed in a massive landslide in Manipur’s Noney district early Thursday and at least another 50, including 23 soldiers, were feared trapped or buried in the rubble of an under-construction railway yard and an adjoining security camp engulfed in the avalanche of rock and mud.
Till late in the evening, 13 injured soldiers and five civilian workers from Assam’s Morigaon district had been rescued by a 400-strong contingent digging through the debris for signs of life. Officials said it could take days for rescuers to get to the bottom of what used to be a sprawl of labour quarters, Army barracks, makeshift offices and semi-complete railway infrastructure.
