A landslide buried two sisters alive while they were asleep in their home in Malaysia's central Selangor state, reports said Sunday, dpa reported.
Noratirah Roslan and Nurul Intan Sarina Roslan, aged 16 and 9, were sleeping early Sunday morning when a hill behind their home suddenly gave way, causing mounds of rubble and earth to crash onto the single-storey house.
The victims' parents and three other siblings escaped unhurt as they were sleeping at the front of the house and managed to climb out to safety through the roof, the official Bernama news agency reported.
The mother of the children, Azizan Mandun, 42, said it was the first landslide incident in the neighbourhood since they moved into the building seven years ago.