Five persons, including a head priest, are feared to have been buried alive after a house collapsed due to a landslide in Karnataka's Brahmagiri hill, police said on Friday.
"The five missing persons are feared to have been buried alive, as the house in which they were staying collapsed in the landslide on the sloppy hill due to heavy rains and gusty winds," Madikeri Deputy Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar told this reporter.
Brahmagiri hill is about 300 km south- west of state capital Bengaluru. Search and rescue operations by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were hampered due to ceaseless rains, poor visibility and the road in the hill blocked by boulders and heaps of mud after the landslide.
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