At least 8 people are dead and five persons are reported missing after heavy rains lashed Kerala since Friday evening. A team of Army officials attached to the Pangode Military camp in the state capital has already left to Kottayam district where a landslide took place at Kootikal. Two families comprising 12 people bore the major brunt, of which six people have been declared dead, while four continue to be missing. A car with two people who were asked not to go forward near Thodupuzha in Idukki