West Bengal youth killed in Kerala flood

According to reports, after passing Higher Secondary (HS) examination this year, Dilwar Hossain Mullick, a resident of Choumaha village under Nakashipara Police Station limits in Nadia district of West Bengal, shifted to Kerala in April and joined as a labourer under a contractor in Kozhikode.

Family members of the youth claimed that his co-workers on Sunday morning  informed about the 19-year-old's death in Kerala's worst flood in last 100 years.

"We have requested our local authorities to help us to get Dilwar's body faster," a family member of the youth said.

At least 324 people died due to the flood situation and about 6,61,887 people have been shifted to 3,466 relief camps.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday promised all possible help and opened up central funds for Kerala flood victims while a massive rescue and relief operation was going on war footing involving the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and NDRF as the state kept struggling with the century's worst calamity.

The PM, who conducted an aerial survey of the flood-affected of Kerala, said the Centre is providing all possible help, including financial assistance and social security schemes for the people of flood-ravaged Kerala.

Expressing grief and sorrow over the deaths and damage caused to property due to floods in Kerala, the PM announced ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh per person to the next kin of the deceased and Rs. 50,000 to those seriously injured from PMNRF.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday expressed her solidarity with the people of flood-hit Kerala.

She also donated Rs. 10 crore to the flood relief fund.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)