Month after escaping Raigad landslide, couple reunites with family member — pet dog

On August 11, a rumour claimed that some bodies of the missing villagers had resurfaced from the debris.

While section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code was imposed after the rescue operation was called off on July 27 and nobody was permitted to go to the village, the rumour led the police to make arrangements to take some residents to the village for the first time since the landslide. Yashwant and Jomi said that Kalu had been with the family for the past two years.

Yashwant lived in the village with his mother, wife and two sons. He said that they managed to escape with no time to save anyone else.

“We lost all our cattle. We did not know the whereabouts of Kalu either. He would sometimes wander outside the house at night. Maybe he survived because of that,” Yashwant said.

At the temporary shelter in Chouk, since he has been reunited Kalu has not left Yashwant and Jomi’s side. “I wonder how he survived for all these days. He has lost a lot of weight,” he says.

A few homes away, another dog sits outside the door, sprawled in a resting position outside the home of Raya Wagh.
The family too found the dog on August 11, whom they would feed regularly while in the village.