Four people have been rescued from a house in India's Kerala state days after heavy flooding caused deadly slides. It comes as the death toll now passes 300 people with many hundreds more still missing. Our correspondent Radhika Bajaj reports from Kerala.

The scent of incense sticks barely hides the smell of fear and death. Of the 122 bodies brought here at the government hospital in Meppadi in Wayanad district, 15 remained unidentified till Friday morning. Even as those looking for missing relatives waited in dread.

"They're not here", says Unnikrishnan whose brother, sister-in-law, nephew and niece are untraceable. Their home in one of the worst affected villages is flattened. With the bodies of neighbors already found and identified, Unnikrishnan is praying for a miracle.

At the relief camps, aid is arriving aplenty. But the shock of losing everything at once is still registering among those brought here.

Fatuma Bi lost her home, government documents and all her worldly belongings. And with the autorickshaw her son used to drive crushed, there's no way to earn an income.

FATIMA BI, Survivor "We are alive but I don't know how we'll overcome this situation. We've lost our money, our home, we've lost everything. I'm very worried. What will our future look like?"

Volunteer organisations are arranging for psychologists to help survivors cope with the trauma of the disaster, and the anxiety of not knowing what's next.

RADHIKA BAJAJ, Wayanad, Kerala "A basic mobile phone is being distributed to those in the Meppadi relief camp, a very small step in rebuilding life from scratch. But the road is going to be long and painful. Many of those here don't want to go back to the homes in landslide prone areas. And so building homes for them is perhaps the biggest challenge the government faces now. Radhika Bajaj, CGTN, Wayanad, Kerala."