Itanagar, July 11 -- Two students were killed and three others were injured when the hostel wall of a Government residential upper primary school collapsed at Namtsering under Dudungkhar circle in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh in the wee hours of Thursday.

"Two girl students lost their lives while two were seriously injured and one suffered minor injury when the hostel wall collapsed on the sleeping children early this morning around 3.15 (0315 hrs) to 3.20 am (0320 hrs) at Government residential upper primary school, Namtsering village under Dudungkhar circle of Lungla Subdivision," DIPRO Tawang said in a statement on Thursday.

The wall of the hostel building could not resist the landslide that occurred due to incessant rain for l...