The team visited Dhobi village in Kunjakothi gram panchayat. Major Chacko said that only 350 of the 1200 people of the village are alive. In one family of 15, only five children have survived. A nine-year-old boy is now the head of the family.

The boy's father had put the kids in a cyclone shelter in the village before returning to the house to fetch others. He could not make it back to the shelter. The team also rescued a 30-year-old woman who was running high fever from a damaged house. She is the only member from a family of 13 who has survived.