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The Kerala government also established 45 relief camps in Wayanad, providing shelter to over 4,000 people, while the state health department set up a control room to offer emergency assistance. [48] Kerala's health minister, Veena George, stated that at least 1,500 rescue personnel, including forensic surgeons, were deployed. [49]
The murder of Vandana Das, a medical doctor, is among the most sensational murder cases in Kottarakkara, Kerala, on 10 May 2023. She was attacked and killed on hospital duty, and the assailant was identified as Sandeep, a 42-year old school teacher from Pooyappally in Kollam. The murder sparked outrage among healthcare professionals in Kerala ...
On 29 October 2023, a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts took place during a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, a suburb of Kochi, India. [1] [2] Five women, two men, and a child were killed and more than fifty other people were injured when the group was holding a Sunday morning session of their annual regional convention in southern India's Kerala state.
Nearly a month after a building fire claimed the lives of 24 Malayalis in Kuwait a Malayali family of four killed in Kuwait City following suffocation due to the fire, which broke out in apartment after they had returned from a vacation in Kerala earlier that day. The family hailed from Neerattupuram in Kerala's Alappuzha district. [52] [41]
The Sharon Raj murder case, also known as the Parassala Sharon Murder Case, [2] occurred in 2022. In this case, Greeshma, a woman, murdered her lover, Sharon Raj, a 23-year-old radiology student, by poisoning him with a pesticide-laced herbal concoction in Parassala, Thiruvananthapuram district. [3]
December 14 - POSCO Fast Track Court, Kattappana acquits the sole accused in a rape and murder of a six-year-old girl citing defects in investigation by Kerala Police. The accused was a Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) worker. [87] December 20 - Kerala cabinet decides to set up Kerala Urban Commission. [88]
2024 Wayanad landslides – At least 231 people are killed, 397 injured and 118 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala. [a] [125] A train derails near Barabamboo, Jharkhand, killing two people and injuring 20 others. [126]
The Kerala government declared 8 May 2023 as the day of official mourning and all government programmes were postponed as a mark of respect to the victims. [15] Kerala's opposition leader VD Satheesan , while speaking to media, said, "Nobody even knows if the boat had a licence or not."