A three-year-old boy was killed and four of his family members injured when the wall of a thatched shelter collapsed on them in Sarkhelpur village here, police said on Thursday.
The family was sitting before a bonfire under the thatched roof before on Wednesday night when the incident happened, they said.
Police Inspector Dharmendra Singh said five people, including a woman and four children, were buried under the debris and were rushed to the medical college hospital for treatment where the doctors declared three-year-old Abhinav dead.
The injured, including three children, were undergoing treatment while the body has been sent for post-mortem, he added.
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