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Wayanad Landslide Death Toll Rises to 6
Rescue teams are searching for two missing workers as 70 National Disaster Response Force personnel and 110 firefighters join the operation, officials said.
- On Thursday, the death toll from the landslide at the Anakkompoyil-Meppadi tunnel project in Wayanad rose to six after recovery teams found three additional bodies at the disaster site.
- The under-construction tunnel project connecting Wayanad and Kozhikode districts experienced the landslide on Tuesday, July 7, triggering a large-scale rescue operation amid a dispute between the government and the contractor.
- Authorities identified the three recovered victims as migrant workers Azharuddin Ansari, Rahul Sharma, and Mohammed Imran, while a rescue team of 70 National Disaster Response Force personnel and 110 Fire and Rescue Services members continues searching.
- Postmortems will be conducted at Vythiri Taluk Hospital and bodies embalmed at Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital before transport to the workers' native states of Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Bihar.
- Search operations continue for two missing workers, while 10 people remain hospitalized—three in the ICU—and 57 families have relocated to relief camps in landslide-prone areas.
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Six people have died so far in a landslide in Wayanad, Kerala. A couple, Palraj and Koodammal, narrowly escaped the disaster, calling it a "miracle." The couple said they were standing at a bus station when the debris started slowly and then suddenly accelerated. They then ran for their lives, screaming for help.
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