Heavy rain continued to lash several parts of Kerala for the third day on Friday even as the rain-related death toll in the state mounted to 22 and more than 22,165 people have been moved to 315 relief camps, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday. Talking to newspersons Thiruvananthapuram,, Vijayan said people from 5,936 families were shifted to the relief camps in the State which witnessed 24 landslides till Thursday night.
Stating that all measures have been taken to provide assistance to the affected persons and to face any eventuality, he said “according to weather predictions, very heavy rainfall will continue for the next 24 hours and the intensity of rain will decrease after that.” Due to heavy rains and water logging, 58 drinking water supply projects of Kerala Water Authority (KWA) were damaged which led to disruption of 1,56,000 drinking water connections.
As the operations of the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) will remain suspended till Sunday afternoon due to water logging, the Chief Minister said talks with the Navy are on to explore the possibility of using Kochi Naval base airport. (UNI)
