In pictures: Rain fury in Kerala

Death toll rises to 76 and 2,87,000 people are in relief camps

Last updated: August 12, 2019 | 19:27

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Rescue workers help locals who carry a dead body to cross a waterlogged area, after a landslide, at Kavalappara in Malappuram, on August 11, 2019.

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With rains subsiding in many parts of Kerala, search operations are underway in landslide hit areas of Kavalappara and Puthumala in Malappuram and Wayanad, even as the toll in the monsoon fury climbed to 76 and 2.87 lakh persons have sought refuge in relief camps. Fifty eight persons are still missing, of whom 50 are in Malappuram, where the toll is 24, the highest in the state.

A view of a flood-affected region in Malappuram district, Kerala.

A landslide site in Kavalappara, Malappuram district, Kerala.

Doctors examine patients affected due to flood at a refugee camp, in Wayanad.

People move to safer grounds from a flood affected area in Kozhikode, Kerala.

Volunteers, local residents and members of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) search for survivors in the debris left by a landslide at Puthumala at Meppadi in the Wayanad, Kerala.

National Disaster Management and Rescue Force (NDRF) members rescue a dog from a flood-affected area, in Wayanad.

A view of a flooded region on the banks of river Kabini following incessant rainfall at Panamaram in Wayanad.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacts with the flood victims at Kaithapoil flood-relief camp in Thamrassaery, Kozhikode.

Rescue workers carry out relief and rescue operation at Olavanna town in Kozhikode, Kerala.

Displaced people are being served food during a gathering to celebrate Eid Al Adha at a relief camp at Kunnukara in Ernakulam district, Kerala.

Volunteers, local residents and members of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) search for survivors in the debris left by a slandslide at Puthumala at Meppadi in the Wayanad.

A flood-affected boy carries his dog as he and others are moved to a safer place in Paravur in Ernakulam district in Kerala, on August 9, 2019.

Rescue personals evacuate families affected by floods at Eloor, in Ernakulam district, on August 9, 2019.

An aerial view of flood-hit areas of Aluva in Kochi, on August 9, 2019.

Rescuers help people to cross a flooded area after a landslide caused by torrential monsoon rains in Meppadi in Wayanad district on August 9, 2019.

Members of a rescue team row a boat towards a submerged temple to look for people believed to be stranded inside during heavy rains on the outskirts of Kochi, on August 8, 2019.

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