Wayanad landslide: One more body found; toll rises to 7, one person still missing

Wayanad: One more body was retrieved from the Wayanad landslide site on Friday, taking the total number of persons killed in the disaster to seven, district officials said.

The recovered body was identified as that of Rakesh Guchait, a surveyor from West Bengal, the officials said.

They said that his body was retrieved from near the Meenakshi Bridge here and will be taken to the Vythiri Taluk Hospital for postmortem.

After that, the body will be taken to the Kozhikode Government Medical College Hospital for embalming before being handed over to the family.

Vikram Rana, a construction manager from Himachal Pradesh, is still missing.

Several teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, fire force officials, and police officers began search operations early in the morning on the fourth day since the disaster, using heavy earthmovers to clear the mud.

Till Thursday, six bodies were recovered from the site of the landslide.

A landslide occurred on July 7 at the site of the Anakkompoyil-Meppadi tunnel project, which is intended to connect Wayanad and Kozhikode districts.

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