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New Delhi At least 35 people have died in landslides and floods in India’s Kerala state over the past week, disaster management officials said on Monday. Twenty-two of them died in two landslides in the Kottayam and Idukki districts that swept away several homes and buried others in mud and debris after heavy rains on Saturday. The body of a 7-year-old child was pulled out of the rubble at the landslide site in Kottayam late on Sunday, and rescue workers were still searching in the rubble for the missing, local newspaper Malayalam Manorama reported. Several incidents of drowning and people being swept away by floodwaters were reported. Several dams were reported to be full to danger levels in the riverine state which is a popular tourist destination. (DPA)
