Thiruvananthapuram: Heavy to very heavy rains continued to batter Kerala with the met department sounding red alert in two districts and orange alert in seven other.
Two deaths were reported on Thursday even as over 700 families were shifted to relief camps in rain hit districts including Kannur and Kasargod where red alert was sounded earlier and Alappuzha.
Ernakulam, Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode and Wayanad were put on orange alert. More than 228 mm rainfall was recorded in these places.
Disaster management authority and revenue department have put coastal areas in northern districts on high alert following high tidal waves.
Rain is also likely in central Kerala.
At the same time, rainfall has decreased in South Kerala including Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts.
Two more deaths were reported due to rain in the state on Thursday. A student identified as Akshay drowned in a pond in Thiruvananthapuram.
A resident of Parassala in Thiruvananthapuram district died after he slipped while cutting and removing a tree that fell on his house. The death toll in the state has increased to eleven in a week.
The search operation is on for two persons who went missing in Kozhikode district on Wednesday.
Hundreds of houses in Upper Kuttanad and Ernakulam are still under water. The number of houses partially damaged during the monsoon has reached 150. There are 651 families in relief camps in various districts.
Traffic was partially disrupted in some low-lying areas in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha and Kottayam districts due to waterlogging on the roads.
