Recalling the sequence of events, Ganesh said on September 7, he got a call from his brother whose last words were that they were in danger due to cracks in their house.
"I got a call around 11.45 AM from my brother. He said the house had developed cracks and was sinking," Ganesh said.
"Three to four minutes later, I called him back to ask him to leave immediately with everyone, but the phone wasn't ringing," he said.
Instead, a mountain of boulders and mud stood at its place. Only his father survived the landslide.
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Same was the plight of several others.
Labourer Yash Pal's family of six was buried alive beneath the rubble.
Nine-member family of Sunku Ram was also wiped out and rescuers are finding it difficult to remove the rubble manually.
"My entire family came under this tomb," Yash Pal, shattered by the tragic death of his family members, said.
Rescuers have so far recovered ten bodies while 31 bodies are to be traced. They are presumed dead.
Unlike Ganesh, Sunku Ram, Yash Pal and several other villagers Panch Kartar was lucky. He escaped the natural calamity by a whisker.
Kartar said, "In less than a minute, all was finished. Mountain came cracking down before my eyes. There was no sign that Punjar-Saddal ever existed."
"There was heavy rain and we were about to leave. Few stones were rolling intermittently. Suddenly there was a bursting and mountain came crumbling in less than a minute," Kartar said. He and his five member family narrowly escaped the landslide.
But after the initial successes of recovery of seven bodies on September 8, there was no breakthrough till this morning, when three bodies were recovered along with a limb.