The FIR was filed at Haripad police station on Wednesday after the victim's parents approached the Alappuzha District Police Chief, officials said. A postmortem examination was also conducted at Alappuzha Medical College as part of the investigation.

India is among the four countries with the highest landslide risk in the world, with an estimated annual loss of more than one life per 100 sq km due to landslides.

NDTV has accessed a report by the sub-contractor, Dilip Buildcon, which shows that the hillside above the tunnel's North Portal was breaking apart

The department said that there has been a delay of a day in the monsoon, covering the whole country, as it normally takes place on July 8.

Kerala's government now awaits a scientific probe before labeling the Wayanad tunnel landslide as natural or man-made.

The first eight days of July brought a sharp increase in rainfall across several parts of the country.

Public Works Minister PK Basheer has since confirmed that repeated directions were issued to remove the accumulated soil.

The biggest catalyst for landslides in India is considered to be the Southwest Monsoon, which mostly spans the period from June to September.

The three people who have been confirmed to have died in the incident are migrant workers from Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand

Days of relentless rain have triggered landslides, flash floods, road collapses, and severe flooding across several parts of the country.

"The government is investigating why mud taken out of the tunnel project was put there without any safety measure," Kerala Minister T Siddique said

A major landslide in Kerala's Wayanad triggered by heavy rainfall has killed two and left several feared trapped under debris.

Rescue teams are searching through debris amid difficult conditions, with viral videos from the site highlighting the scale of destruction.

A landslide triggered by heavy rains hits Kozhikode-Wayanad tunnel project site near Meppady.

The landslide occurred near Meenakshi Bridge at Kalladi, close to the site of the ongoing Anakkompoyil-Meppadi tunnel road project connecting Malappuram and Wayanad districts.

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Residents of Chandroth Unnathi, a tribal settlement near Chekadi in Wayanad's Pulpally, are mourning the death of a 70-year-old female wild elephant they lovingly named Lakshmi.

The environmental damage centres on nearly 300 acres of cardamom patta land at Goodanpara Estate, where forest officials say large-scale tree cutting and excavation were carried out under the guise of developing cardamom plantations.

The rescue was also made possible by local residents. A passerby took over the wheel after learning that Sinoj was rushing to hospital with chest pain.

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