Perumannu

Perumannu is a village near Iritty in Kannur district of Kerala, India.

Perumannu
village
Country	India
State	Kerala
District	Kannur
Languages
• Official	Malayalam, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	670593
ISO 3166 code	IN-KL
Vehicle registration	KL-
Nearest city	kannur
Sex ratio	50:50 ♂/♀
Literacy	100%
Lok Sabha constituency	kannur
Avg. summer temperature	35 °C (95 °F)
Avg. winter temperature	20 °C (68 °F)

2008 accident

On 4 December 2008, Ten schoolchildren were killed and twelve injured in a road accident at Perumannu, when a Jeep hit the children as they were on their way home from school.^[1][2] One of the injured victims died a few days later, raising the death toll to 10 children.^[3]

Transportation

The national highway passes through Taliparamba town. Mangalore and Mumbai can be accessed on the northern side and Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram can be accessed on the southern side. The road to the east connects to Mysore and Bangalore. The nearest railway station is Kannur on Mangalore-Palakkad line. There are airports at Mangalore and Calicut.