Gurgaon: Four girls, between nine and 19 years, died after a 20ft mound collapsed in Kangarka Nuh Village on Monday night.
The fifth girl, nine years old, suffered a sad injury and underwent treatment at the hospital.
The died girls have been identified as a vacilla (19), Janista (18) and Glafsha (9).
Hameed Sophia (9) was pulled out alive from underground and rushed to the hospital.
Mustakim, Sarpana Village in Division Tauru, said five girls went to a small mound to bring land for their home.
The mound, which is about 20 feet tall, has a special type of sticky soil used by villagers to make an oven or clean their house.
“The mound is in the Land of Pancayati.
Village residents are known to dig land from mounds for their household needs,” Mustakim said.
The girls, according to Sarpanch, have started digging in the base of the mound, which caused the entire stack of collapse.
When the girls shouted for help, a group of villagers rushed to the place.
“With a lot of effort, the villagers managed to get the girls.
But at that time, four of them had died.
One still breathes.
We rushed to the nearest hospital, where he underwent treatment,” said Sarpanch.
The same Commissioner Shakti Singh, who reached the village after learning about death, said they would expand all support to the girls.
The girl’s father worked as a daily wage laborer.
“I talked to SP and HR at night itself.
What we can collect until now is that girls dig the ground from the base of the mound when everything collapses on them.
This is indeed a tragic incident,” Singh added.
DC said they would do inspections in the village and destroy each of the land mounds more than 5 feet tall.
“We can’t wait for more accidents like that to happen in the future.
We will destroy all mounds that are more than 5 feet tall,” said Singh.