Wayanad debris slip: experts, residents blame poor safeguards

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Experts and residents attribute the deadly debris slip in Wayanad to inadequate safeguards and engineering failures linked to extensive terrain modifications during tunnel construction. The disaster highlights the risks of poor infrastructure practices in sensitive geological areas.

Expert describes the tragedy as an 'engineering failure-induced disaster’, arguing that extensive modifications to the terrain for the under-construction tunnel project had destabilised the slope