With the rain tapering off and floodwaters receding in the district, more than half of those who were temporarily accommodated in various relief camps went back home on Saturday.
As many as 24,127 persons of 3,512 families who were staying at 145 relief camps in various parts of the district returned home on Friday and Saturday, disaster management control room sources said .
As of now, 11,028 people from 3,430 families have been accommodated at 58 camps.
The district administration had opened 203 camps last Sunday when the torrential rain inundated many low-laying areas and landslips posed a serious threat to the public in various parts of the district. As many as 35,155 members of 9,642 families were shifted to the camps. However, the hill district gradually returned to normality.
The search operations for the missing in the landslip that devastate Puthumala, near Meppadi, yielded no result on Saturday.
As many as 10 bodies of the 17 people feared buried in the debris of the landslip on August 8 have been retrieved so far.
A team of experts from the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad would reach the site on Sunday and they would assist the searchers by using hi-tech equipment such as ground-penetrating radar to recover those who had gone missing in the landslip debris, the sources said.
