Wayanad (TIP): One more body was recovered from the Wayanad landslide site on Friday, July 10, taking the total number of persons killed in the disaster to seven, district officials said.
The two persons missing till now were Rakesh Guchait, a surveyor from West Bengal, and Vikram Rana, a construction manager from Himachal Pradesh, and it is yet to be identified whose body was recovered from near the river, the officials said. With this, only one more person remains to be found. 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, July 9, 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.
“I Trusted Cops, They Put The Stampede Blame On Me”: Vijay In Karur
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay came out swinging on his return to Karur — the scene of the September 2025 stampede that killed 41 people shortly before he was to deliver a pre-election speech — with sharp criticism of the police and the opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
In his first visit to the district since the tragedy, the actor-turned-politician accused the police of misleading him on the day of the rally. He said he had “trusted” the police in proceeding with the event and described the stampede as “the most painful moment in my life, one that continues to haunt me”.
“No matter how much success one enjoys… there are such incidents in life. When I entered Karur they (the police) could have stopped me, no?” he asked the gathering. “They had every right to cancel the meeting. But they did not cancel, they guided me in…” he said.
“Who is really responsible for this… who orchestrated this?” he asked, shifting from criticism of the police to attacks on the DMK, which was in power at the time. Lamenting the loss of “innocent, cherubic children”, the chief minister also hit back at criticism over his silence in the immediate aftermath of the stampede.
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