Eight children die in India slum collapse
Source: Reuters
RANCHI, India, March 15 (Reuters) - Ten people were killed, including eight children, when their huts collapsed into a coal mine in eastern India, a mining official and witnesses said. Survivors said most people were asleep in the slum at Kusunda colliery in the eastern state of Jharkhand when their huts began trembling in the early hours of Thursday. "Everything happened suddenly and we did not have time to run for safety with our children," said Mukhtari Khatoon, who was injured along with her husband and three children. One man, a casual labourer, lost three children in the accident. Mine officials had told the slum residents to move off the site two years ago, said R.K. Singh, a company project officer with government-owned Bharat Coking Coal Ltd, which owns the mine. "This area was in the danger zone and was prone to subsidence due to underground mine fires," he said.
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