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Pettimudi landslide : 3 more bodies recovered, death toll rises to 55

Pettimudi landslide : 3 more bodies recovered, death toll rises to 55

Munnar, Aug 12 (UNI) With the recovery of three more bodies on Wednesday, the death toll in the Pettimudi landslide near here, rose to 55.
The landslide had hit the estate lane area of Nayamakkad on Thursday night.
A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) with the support of non-governmental organisations and other agencies continued the search for missing persons.
According to Devikulam Sub-Collector S Premkrishnan, 18 persons including nine children were missing and four estate lanes were completely buried in the landslide debris.
The administration had shifted 65 families including one family at the landslide site to a camp. It was expected that more bodies swept into the river nearby.
With electricity and communication facilities remaining cut off, information on the search operations were being transferred to the District Collectorate with a mobile tower set up by HAM radio operators at Pettimudi.
The bodies were buried after post-mortem at a makeshift mortuary here.
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