The walls of three-year-old Sachu’s house collapsed when it was hit by heavy rain and flooding in Kerala this week.
Sachu was buried in mud – his family couldn’t save him.
The BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the communities that have been torn apart by the floods in the southern India state.
Filmed and edited by BBC Hindi’s Debalin Roy.
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