Floods in India: Couples travel for wedding in a saucepan

Alappuzha (if) – Heavy rains and floods have lashed the southern Indian state of Kerala in the past few days. Because an important appointment was approaching and the streets were flooded, a couple from Alappuzha had to reschedule: they set off in a saucepan for their wedding at the temple, which was about half a kilometer away.

A video is going viral on the internet in which a couple in a large round pot can be seen being dragged through water by two men. A photographer tries to capture a water ride for a wedding album. “We should have booked a boat instead of a car,” quoteHindustan Times“A man from the background. The newspaper could not confirm the video.

The groom had the same opinion: they really wanted to organize a small boat, but it didn’t work out, Akash Kunjumon told the medium “The Hindu” – so they tried a saucepan. The hall where they had married was also flooded—not the stage on which a priest had trusted them. “It has become a wedding we never imagined,” the bride told reporters on Monday after the ceremony at the Panayannurkavu Devi temple.

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The wedding couple in a saucepan was one of the few beautiful scenes that happened in Kerala in the past few days. At least 35 people have died there since Saturday due to heavy rains. Most of them were killed in two landslides over the weekend. According to local media reports, houses were destroyed, people were buried in mud and debris. Some people were swept away by the floods and drowned.

Television showed dramatic images: a two-story house that fell into a flooded river, roads and bridges that were destroyed, and trees that were uprooted. Warnings were issued for several dams that they are full and at risk.

Meanwhile, the water from the dam may be gradually drained and thousands of people from low-lying areas near the river may be temporarily shifted to camps, according to a statement from Kerala Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s office. However, the weather service has warned of at least three more heavy rains from Wednesday.