Kochi (Kerala), Sep 02 (ANI): Members of the Sikh community in Kochi supplied food items to victims in Kerala to help them cope up with the aftermath of floods as the situation in the state remained grim. Sikhs were seen distributing food grains, clothes, and basic relief material to huge number of victims who queued up to get the aid. The volunteers have come from all parts of Maharashtra and Punjab to provide assistance. We have a team of 36 engineers who are visiting victims’ houses and are helping them reconstruct the affected houses, said a doctor at the camp, Dimple Sethi. Around 200 people are living inside the Sikh temple and we will be providing them with necessities like clothes, utensils and food, said another volunteer, Amarjeet Singh. Incessant downpours since August 08 had caused the worst floods in a century in the southern state, and hundreds of people have perished in the rising waters and landslides with hundreds of houses washed away and tens of thousands people displaced.
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