Massive landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad have claimed at least 308 lives, said Kerala Health Minister Veena Georgw on Friday, even as rescue operations continue in several areas.
While the catastrophe left about 200 injured, another 240 people were missing as of Thursday, ET has reported.
In landslide-hit areas, rescue operators are facing difficulties with waterlogged soil as they search through the wreckage of homes and buildings for survivors or bodies.
In the disaster-stricken Mundakkai, rescue workers stated that heavy machinery is needed to remove the large trees uprooted by the landslides, which also buried several houses.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) of Kerala on August 1 had issued an orange alert in the Wayanad district until Saturday.
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