The India Meteorological Department issued a high-priority orange alert across six central and northern districts of Kerala, as relentless monsoon downpours triggered catastrophic flash floods and landslides that claimed five lives along the overflowing Kottapuzha river basin in Malappuram. Rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force and regional fire services were deployed to evacuate marooned families from submerged riverbanks.
District emergency operations centers reported severe inundation across low-lying agricultural tracts, while surging river currents breached road bridges, cutting off connectivity to dozens of rural hamlets. District collectors in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Idukki declared holidays for educational institutions and prohibited vehicular traffic across vulnerable ghat passes prone to abrupt soil slippage.
Disaster response teams set up relief shelters with medical supplies, safe drinking water, and dry rations to accommodate hundreds of displaced residents. Weather forecasters warned that a deep low-pressure system over the Arabian Sea is likely to sustain heavy to very heavy rainfall over the coastal state for the next forty-eight hours.
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