NEW DELHI: Amid the devastating landslides in Kerala’s Wayanad district, the state police have issued a cautionary advisory urging vacationers to chorus from visiting affected areas for “sightseeing,” emphasizing that such actions may impede ongoing rescue operations.
“Please keep away from visiting disaster-hit areas for sightseeing because it hampers rescue efforts.For help, name 112,” said a message posted on ‘X’ in Malayalam by the Kerala Police.
The landslides in Wayanad have resulted in a tragic toll, claiming over 270 lives, with greater than 200 individuals nonetheless reported lacking.
The police’s enchantment alludes to the idea referred to as ‘darkish tourism,’ the place individuals go to websites related to dying and tragedy. This type of tourism contains areas that function reminders of human struggling and historic bloodshed.
In India, with its wealthy and tumultuous historical past, darkish tourism is more and more gaining consideration. The latest landslides in Mundakkai city and close to Chooralmala faculty mark one of the extreme pure disasters at a single location within the state’s historical past. These landslides have induced intensive destruction, together with the lack of quite a few houses, alterations to watercourses, and the uprooting of huge bushes.
