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Rain continues to lash coast

Staff Reporter

Widespread damage to crops, houses

KASARAGOD: The incessant rain has caused havoc in the costal belt and submerged the low-lying areas in the district.

The heavy showers and gale caused widespread damage to crops, houses and uprooted trees.

Several areas in the coastal belt and in the coastal panchayats are under the threat of floods. The worst hit coast was the Kasaba beach, near here, from where fisher folk families have been evacuated. The monsoon fury this time has once again highlighted the demand of the fishing community here to construct a sea wall.

Water has entered many houses in the low-lying areas and many a tree have been uprooted in the heavy winds.

According to reports reaching here, a large number of houses in the coastal panchayats have been damaged in the floods.

Hundreds of families have been shifted to rescue shelters and are being provided with flood relief.

The district administration has alerted the officials to conduct routine patrolling in the low-lying areas and the coastal belt.

Power supply in some of these regions has been affected.

The Fisheries Department had earlier opened a 24-hour control room in Kanhangad to caution the fisher folk and also co-ordinate relief activities.

The sea has turned turbulent since Sunday and the fishermen were instructed not to venture into the sea until further orders.

Youth drowned

Our Staff Reporter writes from Kannur: A youth drowned in a river near Madakkara under the Kannapuram police station limits here on Tuesday.

His body was later recovered. With this the number of monsoon-related fatalities rose to two. The deceased has been identified as Arun, 20.

The police said that the youth was washed away when he was bathing in the river at around 4 p.m. An Adivasi woman named Leela, 55, died on Monday when a tree fell on her while she was returning home through the Kannavam forest.

Heavy rain lashed the district in the last 48 hours. The fishermen did not venture into the sea. The rain subsided by Tuesday evening.

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