In pictures: Rain fury in Kerala

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

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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.
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.

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