Fourteen dead, thousands displaced as rains, floods strike southern India


KOCHI, India, Aug ⁠3 (Reuters) - Heavy rains and floods battered parts ⁠of southern India over the weekend, killing ‌at least 11 and displacing thousands in the state of Kerala, and setting off a landslide that killed at ​least three in neighbouring Karnataka, ⁠authorities and news reports ⁠said.

• The death toll in rain-related incidents rose to ⁠11 ‌by Sunday and nearly 7,700 people were evacuated to around 275 relief ⁠camps across Kerala, a state government minister ​said.

• Kerala's ‌Chief Minister V D Satheesan said on Monday ⁠he ​would be meeting district officials to review relief camp arrangements. On Sunday, he said clean-up operations had ⁠begun in flood-affected areas.

• The ​state is likely to see strong winds and moderate rainfall in some areas on Monday, the state's ⁠disaster management authority said.

• Heavy rains also forced closures of many schools across the state, while the government postponed a state-level teacher recruitment exam.

• ​In the northern neighbouring ⁠state of Karnataka, heavy rains triggered a landslide that ​killed a couple and their ‌son on Saturday, newspaper ​the Hindu reported.

(Reporting by Jose Devasia; Writing by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by Jamie Freed)

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