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12 buried alive

RANCHI, SEPT. 26. Twelve persons, including nine women, stealing coal from an abandoned dump in Godda district of Jharkhand were killed when a portion of it crashed down on them, a senior police official said.

The victims, who regularly stole coal from the dump in the security area of the Lalmitia Coal Mines of the Eastern Coalfields Limited, were asphyxiated when a large chunk, dislodged by rainwater, slid down burying them alive at 6 a.m., the Superintendent of Police, Mr. Baljit, told PTI.

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