Flood death toll touches 239 as Kerala faces long road to recovery
(WorldNews India)

Since August 8, some 239 people have died in Kerala floods and more than 700,000 people were taken to relief camps. india Updated: Aug 19, 2018 23:03 IST HT Correspondents Hindustan Times, Kochi and New Delhi Follow Story Follow Story --> Rescuers struggled to reach some pockets still cut off by landslides and raging rivers in Kerala, and the government turned its focus to counting losses and launching a rehabilitation drive that could last months, officials said on Sunday as forecasts suggested the worst of the rains may be over for Kerala. Since August 8 — the start of an unusually heavy bout of monsoon rains that led to what has been described as Kerala’s worst flooding in...