Two children died in Malappuram due to rising water level in rivers and dams.
Kozhikode:
Heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in many parts of Kerala on Tuesday, forcing people to be shifted to relief and rehabilitation camps from Thrissur and parts of Kozhikode.
Two children died in Malappuram due to rising water level in rivers and dams.
The Meteorological Department and the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) have issued orange and yellow alerts for various districts of Kerala like Kozhikode, Palakkad, Malappuram and Wayanad in the coming days till October 15.
Orange and yellow alerts indicate very high and high intensity rainfall, respectively.
Earlier in the day, two children died due to rain when an under-construction house collapsed at their residence nearby, police said.
Though a six-month-old girl and her eight-year-old sister were taken to the Kozhikode Medical College-cum-Hospital, their lives could not be saved.
Following warnings and rising water levels in various dams and rivers in the state, district administrations – such as Thrissur, Kozhikode and Malappuram – swung into action and started evacuating or relocating families who were or were affected by it. Could have been. Heavy rain, in relief camps.
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