The idyllic tourist destination of Kerala, India, is experiencing some of its worst floods in nearly a century, with torrential rains in recent days killing at least 324 people, state officials said, and shuttering the state’s major infrastructure. Scores of the state’s residents were injured in landslides and the
authorities said nearly 220,000 more have been displaced since heavy rains began battering the southern Indian state last week. Officials said the rains were the heaviest there since 1924. Floodwaters had risen high enough on Friday to lap at the engines of jets parked on the runway of Kerala’s main international airport in Kochi, and the authorities ordered it closed until Aug. 26, further complicating relief efforts. READ MORE