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The Met Department has predicted isolated heavy rains for four days from Friday.
Fire Force shifted over 300 families to safe locations, relief camps were opened in several schools.
According to reports, houses in Thekkumoodu Bund Colony, Gowreesapattom and Murinjapalam are flooded.
Following the bund-breach catastrophe, Gopikuttan at first lived in shelters provided by neighbours, from where he could daily watch his house, which he built together with his wife with all their life savings
Vettukadu, a low-lying area on the northwest coast of Thiruvananthapuram has been reeling under flood since Saturday night.
The extensive waterlogging continued in Kazhakkoottam and other areas close to the capital city due to the rising sea levels.
This is the first time after the 2018 floods that the capital city is facing such a crisis.
The district authority has opened taluk level control rooms to coordinate the rescue operations.
The Indian Air Force has started rescue and relief operations, airlifting the first batch of stranded tourists from Lachen to Mangan in North Sikkim. As many as 77 tourists were also airlifted from Lachung to Pakyong airport.
The flash flood, which was triggered by a cloudburst in the early hours of Wednesday, has affected over 25,000 people