Two women buried alive near a stream while loading sand

Two women labourers were buried alive after heaps of sand caved in while loading sand near a stream in Odisha's Rayagada district today, police said.

The victims were loading the sand along with three other women labourers near the stream at Kutinga under Tikiri police station when the mishap struck, they said.

The co-labourers and villagers pulled out the bodies from the sand, they said adding the victims belonged to the nearby village.