Five members of a family, including three minors, were killed on Monday evening after a boulder rolled down and crashed into a slum colony due to incessant rains in Kalwa area of Thane district, officials said.

Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell chief Santosh Kadam said the incident took place in Gholai Nagar, where five people - a husband-wife duo and their three children - were buried alive. The bodies have been retrieved from the debris by search and rescue personnel, he said. "Two children were rescued after the incident. All the deceased, including three minors, were from the same family," he said.