CHENGANNUR, India, Aug 21, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – More than one million people
have packed relief camps to escape devastating monsoon floods that have
killed more than 410 people in India’s southwestern state of Kerala,
officials said Tuesday.
About 50,000 homes have been destroyed, according to one Kerala legislator,
and people are flocking to the camps as the scale of the desolation is
revealed by receding waters.
Thousands of army, navy and air force personnel have fanned out across the
state to help those stranded in remote and hilly areas.
A total of 1,028,000 people were now recorded in about 3,200 relief camps
across the state, a state government spokesman told AFP.
Six more bodies were found Monday, he added, taking the death toll to more
than 410 since the monsoon started in June.