Three teenage girls were killed and two other women injured after a heap of earth fell on them while digging in Singhia village in Bihar's Samastipur district.
The incident occurred when the three girls with two other women of Singhia village had gone to dig earth in order to smear their mud house with clay on the occasion of Diwali, Superintendent of Police Nawal Kishore Singh said.
The women, who sustained injuries, however, managed to come out of the heap of earth which fell on them while the three teenage girls were asphyxiated, he added.
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The other woman, who sustained minor injury, was admitted to a local primary health centre, the SP added.
The identity of the other woman has not been ascertained yet, he said.
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