Shimla, Sept. 10 -- Five members of a family were killed when a house collapsed following a landslide in the remote Sharmani village in the Nirmand sub division in Himachal's Kullu on Tuesday, police said.

Eight members of the family were buried in the debris of whom five died and three were rescued by villagers during the accident that happened at 1.30 am, the police said. All three survivors are hospitalised in Nirmand, sub-divisional magistrate Manmohan Singh said.

According to the police, the families of brothers Dharam Das, 48, and Shiv Ram, 52, lived in the same house and both sustained injuries. Though Shiv Ram, who was sleeping in verandah, survived, his wife Bresti Devi, 50, son Chunni Lal, 32, daughter-in-law Anju Kumari, 25, ...