MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 15: At least nine members of a family, including two children and an infant, were killed by a landslide in a Neelum valley village on Thursday night.

Police officer Raja Ghulam Sarwar said on Friday that the landslide had engulfed a house in the Kanar Bela village, burying the nine people.

The victims, Abdul Rehman, 75, and Suleman, 70, sons of Kaloo; Lal Jan, 50, wife of Abdul Rehman; Sadiq, 19, son of Abdul Rehman; Tasleem Akhtar, 18, daughter of Abdul Rehman; Azmat Jan, 35, wife of Shamsuddin and her three children, four-year-old Mohammad Khaliq, three-year-old Mohammad Attique, and five-month-old Nazia were asleep when their house located on the slope of a mountain was struck by the landslide, Mr Sarwar said. Razia Bibi, 32, wife of Lal Deen, and two-year-old Asiya Bibi were recovered alive by the villagers.

APP Adds: AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayyat Khan has expressed grief and sorrow over the incident and directed the administration to provide every possible assistance and relief to the victims' family and the injured.