‘Bring him back’: Hope meets loss in Indian villages hit by landslides

After the collapse of a bridge that connects the landslide-hit villages of Attamala and Chooralmala in Wayanad, rescue workers relied on ropes to carry retrieved bodies to the hospital [TA Ameerudheen/Al Jazeera]

Wayanad, India — Braving heavy rain, Ubais VV rushed to the government hospital in Meppadi village.

Around him, ambulances flashing red and blue lights and blaring their sirens also arrived at the hospital, carrying bodies of people buried or washed away by a series of landslides that devastated three villages on Tuesday in Kerala’s Wayanad district in the mountains of the Western Ghats.