The decomposed body of a
30-year-old woman, swept away by massive landslide on Monday last, was recovered from the river Chite near Aizawl this evening.
Young Mizo Association (YMA) sources said the body of Munna Begum was recovered by the volunteers of the YMA branch of southernmost Aizawl's Venghnuai locality.
The central committee of the YMA organised massive search by involving its branches within Aizawl city since Tuesday while the State Disaster Response Force was also involved in the search operations.
Aizawl district Additional SP Remsanga said six people, including Munna Begum, were inside a house at the Falkland locality of Zemabawk when the landslide swept it away on July 14.
The house was rented by a building construction worker Amar Hussein of Duttapur in neighbouring Cachar district of Assam and he was living in the house with two of his helpers while Hussein's wife Begum and two children recently joined them.
