Cyclone Gaja: Death toll reaches 45; Palaniswami to visit affected areas tomorrow
India | November 18, 2018 18:34 ISTThe central government has been asked to depute a team from the National Disaster Management to assess the destruction.
The central government has been asked to depute a team from the National Disaster Management to assess the destruction.
Speaking to reporters at Salem,Chief Minister K Palaniswami said relief work will be taken up on a war-footing and that the work was already underway.
On Saturday, CM Amarinder Singh had said 59 people had died, while Sub-Divisonal Magistrate Amritsar Rajesh Sharma had put the toll at 61.
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Efforts to locate 40 others still missing in the Naga City landslide that buried some 30 houses are still being made by the rescuers.
Nearly 5,00,000 people remained without electricity, while hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes.
As on Sunday, 40 cases of leptospirosis were reported in the state. Kozhikode reported 28 such cases while the rest were from Alappuzha, Thrissur and Pathanamthitta.
The Kochi International Airport has been shut till August 26 and Southern Railway and Kochi Metro have suspended their operations following continuous heavy downpour in the state.
Expressing shock over the loss of life, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed authorities to ensure that the injured received all possible medical treatment.
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Palaniswamy accused political parties and anti-social elements of "deliberately instigating and misleading" innocent people leading to violence and loss of lives.
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The top police official said three more Army men and a civilian, who was the father of an Army personnel, were killed, taking the toll to six.
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An Army jawan injured in ceasefire violation by Pakistan succumbed to injuries last night, taking the death toll in the border firing in Jammu and Kashmir to 11 since Thursday.
The death toll in rain-related incidents in Kerala rose to 19 even as more than 600 fishermen, stranded at sea off the state's coast, were rescued, official sources said on Sunday.
Torrential downpour threw normal life out of gear in several parts of the metropolis and neighbouring districts today even as the death toll in rain-related incidents mounted to twelve in the state.
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