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A resident carries a dog from his destroyed
house after flashfloods in Thodupuzha in India's Kerala state on Saturday [Appu
S Narayanan/AFP] |
SEB learnt that at press-time, at least 25 people have died and more than 2,000 have been evacuated after days of heavy rainfall brought flash floods and landslides in the state of Kerala in southern India, sweeping away houses, cars and bridges.
The state’s disaster management authority said the deaths bring the number of monsoon-related deaths in one week to 35, Washington Post reports.
According to the report, the Indian army,
navy and air force spent the weekend scouring affected districts for survivors,
while devastated residents told local news outlets that entire communities had
been ravaged by the deluge.
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