Srinagar, Aug. 7 -- A man and his daughter were killed while two other family members sustained injuries after a tree fell on their tent in South Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said on Wednesday.

The tragic incident occurred in the early hours at Kanzalpathri in the upper reaches of Waltango Kund, where gusty winds and heavy rainfall triggered a small landslide, dislodging a tree and boulders that crashed onto a tent sheltering a nomadic Bakerwal family.

"Four members of the family were inside the tent when the incident took place. Two family members, Mohammad Shafi Boker and his daughter Reshma, died on the spot, while two others were injured," a police officer said.

The injured were shifted to a hospital in Qazigund, where their c...