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Keralam Rains Intensify: CM Orders Hourly Assessment Amidst Fatalities and Flash Floods
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News18•21-09-2026, 02:45
Keralam Rains Intensify: CM Orders Hourly Assessment Amidst Fatalities and Flash Floods
- •Intensifying rains in Keralam have led to mudslides, landslides, and flash floods, claiming five lives and leaving two missing.
- •Chief Minister V D Satheesan has ordered an hourly assessment of the situation, with the Disaster Management Authority convening meetings with district collectors.
- •SMS alerts have been issued in Idukki and Kottayam, and collectors are instructed to take necessary steps, including evacuation.
- •A special team of the Disaster Management Force has been deployed to Nilambur-Amarambalam in Malappuram after five people were swept away in the Kottapuzha River, resulting in two deaths and two missing.
- •Fatalities include a woman from Tamil Nadu killed in a landslide near Teekoy in Kottayam and two persons dead in a mudslide in Kottakamboor, Idukki.
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As heavy rains triggered flash floods, landslides, and mudslides resulting in casualties, Chief Minister V D Satheesan ordered an hourly assessment of the situation and the immediate deployment of a Disaster Management Force special team to Malappuram district.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded the weather alerts in Kottayam and Idukki from yellow to orange, indicating very heavy rainfall ranging between 11 cm and 20 cm.
Five people from a group were swept away by a flash flood in the Kottapuzha River after entering it for a bath; local residents rescued one, fire and rescue personnel recovered two bodies, and two others remained missing.
