MUZAFFARABAD, March 22: Eight people were killed and four others injured in fresh rain-related incidents on late Wednesday night, but the weather improved on Thursday, allowing helicopter flights aiding efforts to recover bodies in the remote Doba Syeddan village.

According to officials, the latest incidents occurred in Chatkari Lubgran village in the Leepa Valley, about 100 kilometres from here, in which six members of a family were buried alive after a landslide.

SSP Muzaffarabad Dr Liaquat Ali said two women were killed in Moyan Syedan village, about 40 kilometres southeast of here, when their house was hit by a landslide late on Wednesday night.

Villagers pulled out two other women alive in injured condition, he added.

Meanwhile, an army helicopter made four sorties to the snow-bound Doba Syeddan village, some 65 kilometres south of here, where a landslide had buried 43 persons on Tuesday.

Sixteen of them had been rescued alive while the rest of them were believed to have died under the debris.