Kolkata, Sept. 5 -- A mother and her two teenage daughters were buried alive after their mudhouse wall collapsed while they were asleep at midnight yesterday at Kamarpara village under Mandir Bazar police station in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, official sources said today.

Housemaker Brihaspati Karmakar and her two daughters Shila (15) and Priya (10) were declared dead by the medics after the police recovered them from debris and took them to the Diamond Harbour hospital.

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