An Odisha-based doctor, who was on a vacation to Wayanad in Kerala along with his wife and two others, has gone missing in the landslides triggered by incessant rains.
A resident of Choudwar in Cuttack, the doctor has been identified as Bishnuprasad Chinhara. He along with his wife Priyadarshini Pal and two other doctors went to Bengaluru on July 26 from where they reached Wayanad on Monday.
“Though we have come to know about our daughter-in-law, who is safe and being hospitalised. We don’t know the whereabouts of our son. We request the state government to help us to find our son,” said Pramod Kumar Chinhara, father of the missing doctor.
Bishnuprasad is a 2nd year medicine post-graduate (PG) student in a private medical college in Bhubaneswar, his wife is a lecturer in a private nursing college near Cuttack.
The two others—Swekruti Mohapatra, a third-year medical post graduate student from the same private medical college, Swadhin Panda, is a former student of the college.
Sources in the medical college said Swekruti is from Jharsuguda, though there are no other details about her.
Priyadarshini said her sister-in-law said the entire house in which they were staying was swept away while she managed to stay with the help of a wall.
The state control room at the Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) office said they are in touch with the disaster management authority of Kerala.
As many as 167 people have died and over 200 injured in the massive landslides that hit the northern Kerala district of Wayanad a day ago, with the numbers expected to increase as rescuers unearth debris, the district administration said on Wednesday.
The 167 dead include 22 children, it said.
It also said that 96 bodies were identified and post-mortem of 166 were completed.
Out of 61 body parts recovered, the post-mortem of 49 was completed, it said.
Of the 167 bodies, 75 were handed over to relatives or next of kin, it further said.
It also said that 219 people were admitted to hospitals from the disaster-hit areas and of them 78 are still undergoing treatment.
Rescue teams comprising the Army, Navy and NDRF are collectively looking for survivors by unearthing the debris and breaking into the remains of houses destroyed or covered up with mud in the landslides.
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