Idukki, Kerala landslides death toll crossed 43
It was as if they were sleeping, eyewitnesses recalled. Some of the victims of a devastating landslide in kerala last week died in their sleep, so when their bodies were recovered, it looked like they were still sleeping. Others had just celebrated a birthday. Forty-three dead bodies have been retrieved so far, while many others are still missing, after a massive landslide in Kerala. The state, which had been ravaged by consecutive floods in 2018 and 2019, woke up to yet another monsoon-related disaster on friday morning.
Pettimudi, a quiet village on the hilltop of Munnar panchayat in idukki district was shaken awake in the middle of the night due to the landslide and it would be hours before anyone in the outside world would even come to know of it. The people who lost their lives and who are missing were workers of tea estates. Many were natives of tamilnadu who had migrated to idukki and had been working in tea estates for generations, from the time of the british rule. At the time of the landslide, the layams were full of people. The children of some of the families study in tamilnadu or in Kerala’s towns like Pala, but were all at home due to the pandemic-induced lockdown.
Meanwhile chief minister pinarayi vijayan and Kannan devan Hills Plantations Company (P) Limited, that owns the tea estates, have said that there were around 80 people. This is the official figure, while the exact number of people who were in the layams at the time of the accident is not known yet. Pettimudi is connected to tamil Nadu through Marayur and Udumalpet. It’s around 80 kilometers to tamil Nadu through both routes.
Pettimudi, a quiet village on the hilltop of Munnar panchayat in idukki district was shaken awake in the middle of the night due to the landslide and it would be hours before anyone in the outside world would even come to know of it. The people who lost their lives and who are missing were workers of tea estates. Many were natives of tamilnadu who had migrated to idukki and had been working in tea estates for generations, from the time of the british rule. At the time of the landslide, the layams were full of people. The children of some of the families study in tamilnadu or in Kerala’s towns like Pala, but were all at home due to the pandemic-induced lockdown.
Meanwhile chief minister pinarayi vijayan and Kannan devan Hills Plantations Company (P) Limited, that owns the tea estates, have said that there were around 80 people. This is the official figure, while the exact number of people who were in the layams at the time of the accident is not known yet. Pettimudi is connected to tamil Nadu through Marayur and Udumalpet. It’s around 80 kilometers to tamil Nadu through both routes.