M'luru: Woman washed away as rain wreaks havoc

MANGALURU: Heavy rain that lashed the coast on Saturday morning left a trail of destruction in all the 5 taluks of Dakshina Kannada district.

A 50-year-old lady, Revathi, was killed in Belthangady taluk after she was washed away through the robust present in a river at Shirlal. She is survived through four children, two of whom are speech and listening to impaired.

The downpour, accompanied through gusty winds, led to tree falls in lots of areas, together with one each in Hosabettu near Surathkal and near Nehru Maidan within the city. Power provide was disrupted in Pacchanady after a tree fell on a transformer. No accidents had been reported. Revenue division officials stated the true extent of damages may also be assessed best through Monday.

On Friday night, a minimum of four other folks had been injured and a automobile broken after a portion of a peepal tree at Mangaladevi Temple fell. Surekha, 63, Praveen Suvarna, 49, Naveen, 45, and Tejaswini, 20, are underneath remedy without a primary accidents to them.

Minister’s flight delayed

Meanwhile, inclement climate ended in the extend of a Hyderabad-Mangaluru flight that minister U T Khader was to board on the Bengaluru stopover. Khader made a maiden discuss with to his place of origin after being awarded the plum publish of housing and concrete development within the H D Kumaraswamy-led executive.


Meanwhile, the IMD stated that the southwest monsoon has additional advanced into some portions of south Konkan area, including that the conditions had been beneficial for the development of southwest monsoon into most portions of the Arabian Sea.


The IMD has forecast heavy to very heavy rain in coastal Karnataka on Sunday. Squally winds reaching 40-50kmph, gusting to 60kmph, are most likely along and stale the Kerala-Karnataka-Maharashtra coasts. Sea condition may be tough to very tough over east central, west central and southwest Arabian Sea. Fishermen are advised not to challenge into those areas.


Heavy rain is anticipated to continue in coastal Karnataka on Monday. This is anticipated to accentuate on Tuesday and really heavy rainfall is predicted in isolated areas of the coastal stretch, according to the weatherman.


The district recorded 72mm of rainfall within the 24 hours from eight.30am of Friday. Belthangady taluk gained the highest rainfall of 82mm, with Puttur receiving the least at 61mm.
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