Kerala CM Vijayan said that the IMD had only issued an orange alert in Wayanad district ahead of the landslides.
Search and rescue personnel using a rope to cross a stream.
Even as the death toll in Wayanad landslides continued to increase, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan refuted Union Minister Amit Shah’s claims, saying this is no time for “blame games.” Shah had claimed that the state did not heed the Centre’s warning regarding a possible natural calamity in Wayanad due to heavy rains. An IMD report supported the chief minister.
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