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A mudslide astatine Kumbanpara, adjacent Adimali successful Idukki district, precocious Saturday (October 25, 2025), partially buried 2 houses, reportedly trapping astatine slightest 1 household inside.
A monolithic hunt and rescue cognition was underway to extricate the families. The constabulary person rushed world movers to region the debris and rescue the families.
Idukki MP Dean Kuriakose told section reporters that exigency responders person contacted Biju and his wife, Sandhya, who are trapped successful their house, implicit the mobile phone.
The Fire and Rescue Department, helium said, were utilizing a portable pneumatic drill to scope them by breaching the house’s factual roof.
Mr Kuriakose said helium was unsure whether determination were immoderate occupants successful the neighbouring house. He said the territory medication had evacuated residents of the disaster-prone locality owed to the dense rains that lashed Idukki territory implicit the past fewer days.
However, helium said, Biju and Sandhya had returned location from the alleviation campy to retrieve immoderate important documents erstwhile the mishap occurred.
The authorities has rushed an NDRF squad to the spot.
