Day After Heavy Rain, Heart-Wrenching Scenes From Kerala's High Ranges
NDTV
It was the story of many hapless families in Koottickal, located in Kottayam district of Kerala, which suffered severe destruction and human casualty due to a series of landslips triggered by heavy rain yesterday.
An elderly woman could be seen running from one person to another screaming through the rain swept roads in this high range hamlet, located at the foothills of Western Ghats mountain ranges, on Sunday morning.
"I have lost everything...everything in my life...where should I go?...who will give me a shelter?" the woman, clad in a tattered saree, asked aloud crying and running here and there.
The unexpected torrential rain, which pounded the village on Saturday, washed away every penny of her life time earnings and made her homeless all of a sudden.
"I begged our Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan sir to give me two cents of land to construct a ''koora'' (hut). I have nowhere to go. My daughters' houses are also submerged. Now I am going to the church to see whether I will get a place there," she told the journalists gathered at the place.
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