Seventy lives were lost in a devastating landslip at Pettimudy, near Munnar, on August 6, 2020. Ahead of the third anniversary of the disaster, which falls on Sunday, death certificates of missing persons were finally handed over to their relatives.
In the landslip at the Kannan Devan Hill Plantation (KDHP), estate layams (cluster homes) lay buried and 66 people lost their lives. Four people were reported missing.
The rescue works that continued for 16 days could not trace the bodies of Dineshkumar, 22; Kasthuri, 26; Priyadarshini, 7; and Karthika, 21. The bodies remain untraced, but the government distributed compensation to the families of those missing.
