Over 13,800 people have been provided shelter at 124 relief camps in the district. Low lying areas are inundated.
Kerala
Flood : Rains continued to wreak havoc in many parts of Kerala
with northern hill district of Wayanad experiencing widespread
landslides and flooding overnight, forcing thousands of people to
take shelter at relief camps, officials said today.
Several
people fled their homes yesterday due to landslides and land slips in
the district part of Western Ghats. People living in the downstream
have been shifted to relief camps.
Over
13,800 people have been provided shelter at 124 relief camps in the
district. Low lying areas are inundated, officials said.
Shutters
of Banasura Sagar Dam were raised further last night to release
excess water.
Many
parts of northern Kerala districts including Kannur, Kasargod,
Kozhikode, Malappuram and Palakad also witnessed rains last night.
Two
shutters of Cheruthoni Dam part of Idukki reservoir were closed last
evening.
The
water level in the dam is receding further, alleviating apprehensions
of the affected people living downstream, particularly in Ernakulam
district.
However,
water level in Mullaperiyar Dam rose to 136 ft, prompting authorities
to sound caution.
The
catchment areas of the dam is receiving rains continuously.
Meanwhile,
the Travancore Devaswom Board has asked the devotees to avoid their
pilgrimage to Sabarimala in Pathanamthitta district to participate in
the Niraputhari as water level in Pamba River was rising steadily.
Rains
had pounded several parts of Kerala yesterday, triggering landslips
and compounding the woes of people already reeling under
unprecedented floods and downpour which have claimed 39 lives in six
days.
The
Union Home Ministry's National Emergency Response Centre (NERC) in
New Delhi had said that 187 people have lost their lives in Kerala to
the monsoon fury, with 2,406 villages in 14 districts badly hit by
rains and floods, and standing crop in over 26,400 hectares damaged.
Landslides
were reported from various places in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Idukki
and Wayanad districts.
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