Jammu, Feb 2 (PTI) An 11-year-old boy was killed and his younger sister injured when the wall of an under-construction mud house collapsed in a remote village in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.

The accident occurred at Paundal village in the Lathi area when a group of labourers was busy in construction work at Ashok Kumar's mud house, they said.

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One of the walls collapsed and trapped Kumar's two children who were playing there. The duo was taken to a hospital where Pradeep Kumar was declared dead while his six-year-old sister Monika Devi, who sustained serious injuries, is undergoing treatment, police said.

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