Five members of a family, including three children, were killed after the roof of their house collapsed in Bihar’s Saran district, police said on Monday (November 10, 2025).
The incident took place around 9:45 p.m. on Sunday (November 9, 2025) when they were sleeping in their residence at Manas village under the Akilpur Police Station limits, a senior officer said.
“Five members of the family, including three children, died in the roof-collapse incident. Immediately after getting the information, a police team reached the spot and recovered the bodies from the debris. The bodies have been sent for the post-mortem examinations”, Saran SSP Kumar Ashish told PTI on Monday (November 10).
The identities of the deceased persons are being ascertained, he said. Locals claimed that the house was more than 30 years old, and its condition had deteriorated.
The area falls under the jurisdiction of the Patna revenue district. The police have sent all relevant documents related to the incident to the district administration concerned for adequate compensation to the immediate family members of the deceased, the officer said.
Published – November 10, 2025 12:18 pm IST
