Accordingly after pounding kerala for days, rains abated on Sunday even as the death toll in the monsoon fury climbed to 70 with over 2.27 lakh people being sheltered in relief camps across the state. Meanwhile with the recovery of seven more bodies, including four from Kozhikode and one from Wayanad on Sunday, the toll has gone up to 67, official sources had earlier said. The latest report said the death toll has now climbed to 70.
Furthermore Congress leader rahul Gandhi visited a relief camp at Wayanad and patiently heard the woes of the people who were displaced from their homes following flooding and destruction of their dwellings. Reportedly Gandhi also visited Kavalappara, a 10 acre settlement near Nilambur in Malappuram, which bore the brunt of a massive landslide on August 8 and the local people said that there was no sign of the 35 odd houses after the landslide and at least 65 people are suspected to have been buried alive.
