The State Disaster Response Force and volunteers from Falkland locality and other places continued their operation to search the body of a 30-year-old woman, swept away by a massive landslide last evening near Aizawl, despite inclement weather.
Six persons, including Munna Begum, were inside a house at Falkland area of Zemabawk when the landslide swept it away, Aizawl district Additional SP Remsanga told PTI.
A building construction worker Amar Hussein, from Duttapur in neighbouring Cachar district of Assam, had rented the house and was living there with two of his helpers while his wife Begum and two children recently joined them, he said.
The landslide, during a heavy downpour, swept away the house and Begum was still missing while the two children sustained minor injuries, Remsanga added.
Except her sarees, Begum was yet to be found and the volunteers suspected that the flash flood has swept her body to river Chite, he said.
