India, Sept. 9 -- Five members of a family were killed when a house collapsed following a landslide in the remote Sharmani village under Ghatu panchayat in the Nirmand sub division of Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh early on Tuesday, police said.

Eight members of the family were buried in the debris of whom five died and three were rescued by villagers, the police said. All three survivors are hospitalised in Nirmand, sub divisional magistrate Manmohan Singh said.

According to the police, the families of brothers Dharam Das and Shiv Ram lived in the same house. Though Shiv Ram survived, his wife Tripta Devi, son Chunni Lal, daughter-in-law Anjana Kumari, grandson Bhopesh, 5, and granddaughter Jagriti, 7, died in the house collapse. ...