Stone Extraction: Teenage girl killed, 3 hurt in landslide
A 17-year-old girl was killed and three others injured in a landslide in Mandir Jum area of Jaflong in Sylhet yesterday morning.
Witnesses said the four were illegally extracting stone by digging holes in the ground near Kali Mandir of the Mandir Jum area when a chunk of soil came crashing down on them, killing Shompa Das.
Hillol Roy, officer-in-charge of Gowainghat Police Station, said the body was sent to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital for an autopsy and injured Jyoti Bikash, Dipto Sarkar and Ajit Sarkar were admitted there for treatment.
Police arrested Nannu Miah, president of Purbo Jaflong unit of Jubo League, in connection with illegal stone extraction and the incident that resulted in the death of Shompa.
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