Three of a family, including a couple and their son, an engineering student were buried alive by a landslide triggered by heavy wee hours down pour at Salbari area in Guwahati city on Saturday.

Police informed that all the family members were sleeping when a huge volume of rain-inflicted mud mass fell on their house located in a hilly area buried all of them alive.

The slain couple was identified as Hemanta Sharma and Anjali Sharma. Their son who also died, was a student of Assam Engineering Institute.

A source in Kamrup district administration informed that the area was prone to landslides during the rainy season because of rampant destruction of the green cover uphill by the encroachers who have ignored repeated warning issued by the administration to move away from the locality.