Mundakkai-Chooralmala disaster: DDMA recognises 32 missing as 'dead'

Kalpetta: The Wayanad District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has submitted a report to the state government to declare all 32 missing persons in the Chooralmala-Mundakkai disaster as 'dead'. This was after the authorities completed the DNA tests of dead bodies and body parts of all the pending samples.

The district administration has submitted the list to the state government. Moves are also afoot to issue death certificates once the state government declares the missing persons as dead.

The state government had issued an order ensuring all the benefits, including compensation given to the relatives of those identified, would be made available for the missing persons once they were declared dead.

The rescue and search teams had retrieved as many as 454 dead bodies and body parts.