LANDI KOTAL: A woman and her three daughters were killed when a mudslide hit them here on Monday.

Family sources said that wife of Sikandar Khan, an ailing person from Mukhtar Khel locality, along with three of her daughters was digging mud near their house to carry out its repair prior to the start of winter.

However, the place they were digging caved in, burying all the four. Local people retrieved their bodies.

Moving scenes were witnessed when their coffins were taken to the graveyard.

The three sisters were aged 15, 13 and 10 years, respectively.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2018

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