Three sisters, aged between three and nine years, were killed after a container full of coal overturned and collapsed on their temporary house on Thursday.
The incident took place while the coal was being unloaded from the container in Bhiwandi tehsil of Thane district.
As the house was buried under the coal, four children and their mother got stuck, said police.
While the mother and her two year-old-son were evacuated safely, the three sisters — Lavanya (7), Amisha (6) and Preeti (3) — were killed.
The Bhiwandi Taluka police has arrested Gopinath Madvi, the owner of the brick kiln and Suresh Ramdas Patil, who had brought the coal. A court has remanded them in police custody of two days.
