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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.
The district authority has opened taluk level control rooms to coordinate the rescue operations.
This is the first time after the 2018 floods that the capital city is facing such a crisis.
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 International Organization for Migration mission in Libya said more than 5,000 people were presumed dead, with 3,922 deaths registered in hospitals, and over 38,640 were displaced in the flood-stricken region.
The train traffic between Delhi and Shahdara will be suspended, announced the railways.
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