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Number  of deaths  rises to 369 today

By our  correspondent

Kalpetta, Aug  04 (IVC)  With  the recovery  of  12 more  bodies  from the  Chaliyar river today, the  number  of  dead  persons   in the  landslides at  Mundukki and Chooralmala  in the  Wayanad District     on July 30,  has gone up  to  369, the  official sources said.

                The  arrangements had been made to bury  the  unidentified bodies  en mass  of which eight bodies   would  be  buried today at the  Harrison plantation’s land, the sources said , these   eight  bodies  would  be  buried  in the  graves  prepared  side  by  side.

                Eighteen personnel, who had  gone  for  search  in the Chaliyar river  were  trapped  inside  the  forest.   They  were   Emergency  Rescue Force   personnel, the  sources added.

                Live  signals from Mundukkai and  Chooralmala   at two locations  had been recorded  through radar search and  more searches  would  held  tomorrow  there, the  minister  said.

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