(31 Jul 2024)
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Wayanad, Kerala, India – 31 July 2024
1. Various of people carrying a corpse waiting to transfer it to an ambulance
2. Wide of people transporting corpse shrouded in cloth to an ambulance
3. Mid of people carrying umbrellas standing next to an ambulance
4. Pan of ambulances waiting outside a makeshift mortuary
5. Various of people inside a makeshift mortuary with corpses kept in glass chambers
6. Wide of people outside the makeshift mortuary carrying umbrellas
STORYLINE:
Dozens of bodies of landslide victims in India were transported by ambulances to a makeshift morgue on Wednesday.
They were covered in white cloths and kept in glass chambers.
Hundreds of rescue workers searched through mud and debris from multiple landslides that have killed at least 151 people in southern India, police said.
The landslides occurred after torrential rains triggered torrents of mud and water that swept through tea estates and villages.
Another 186 people were injured by the landslides that hit hilly areas in Kerala state’s Wayanad district early Tuesday, flattening houses, uprooting trees and destroying bridges, said police officer Aijaz, who uses one name.
P.M Manoj, a spokesman for the state’s top elected official, said 187 people were unaccounted for.
Seventy-seven bodies have been identified so far and mostly handed to their relatives, he added.
More than 5,500 people have been rescued from landslide-hit areas, said the state’s top elected official.
The Indian Army was constructing a temporary bridge after the main bridge linking one of the worst-affected areas was swept away by the landslides.
Kerala, one of India’s most popular tourist destinations, is prone to heavy rains, flooding and landslides. Nearly 500 people were killed in the state in 2018 in one of the worst floods.
AP video by Rishi Lekhi
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