KOZHIKODE: In a unique time, 18-year-old resort administration pupil Abhijith Kallingal would have gone for a protracted, leisurely stroll in his village of Punchirimattom to seize its lush inexperienced hills and waterfalls along with his cell phone, as he did nearly every single day. However that is now. Sitting in a aid camp in Meppadi’s authorities highschool this weekend, he was deleting these cherished images, unable to bear the reminiscences they evoked.
Abhijith’s life was shattered when a landslide early Tuesday flattened his village and claimed the lives of his whole household, eight in all – together with his mother and father, siblings, grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin, and 4 shut neighbours who had sought refuge in his house because it rained nonstop for 2 days in Wayanad.
{The teenager} survived solely as a result of he was away in Thiruvananthapuram for his research. His as soon as protected and exquisite village, typically photographed and shared with mates, turned the location of an unimaginable tragedy.
Abhijith’s house, perceived as protected resulting from its elevated location, was utterly destroyed. All its 12 occupants on the time perished. The our bodies of his father, sister, uncle, and aunt have been discovered within the rubble, however his mom, brother, grandmother, and cousin stay lacking. Including to his grief, Abhijith misplaced an aunt who was visiting family in Chooralmala – the location of one other devastating landslide.
Abhijith is left alone, accompanied solely by his cousin Pranav, the only real survivor from his uncle Narayanan’s household. Amidst his trauma, Abhijith left the aid camp to carry out the final rites of his father and sister on the Mariyammam temple funeral grounds. “Our village was so lovely. I had taken so many photos. I’ve deleted most of them. What’s the usage of maintaining them when all the things is misplaced?” he stated. The photographs have been erased, however the scars remained.
