Cyclone Titli: Death toll 27
TNN Bureau. Updated: 10/16/2018 10:41:10 AM
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BHUBANESWAR: With the recovery of three more bodies on Monday, the death toll in cyclone Titli and the subsequent flood in Odisha rose to 27, even as relief and restoration activities have been stepped up, officials said.
The three bodies were found in the worst hit Raigada block of Gajapati district, the officials said.
"In the landslide incident in Raigada block, 18 people have died. Postmortem of bodies have been conducted," said chief secretary A P Padhi, who visited worst-hit Gajapati district to review the situation.
Claiming that the situation has improved in many parts of the state, including in Gajapati and Ganjam districts, Padhi said the food distribution work will begin from Tuesday.
The chief secretary said that there has been extensive damage to the paddy and other crops in the Gajapati, Ganjam and Rayagada districts. He also claimed that road communication has been restored in many parts of the affected districts.
He said the calamities have hit 16 of the 30 districts of the state. The affected districts were: Gajapati, Ganjam, Rayagada, Puri, Kandhamal, Kendrapada, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Khorda, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Nayagarh, Balasore, Mayurbhanj and Angul.
Though a total of 3,60,353 people were evacuated and sheltered in 1,614 relief centres in view of cyclone and subsequent flood, most of them have returned to their houses by Monday evening and 8,889 people were left in 41 relief centres, the officials said.