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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Apr 9: The rain which poured on the evening of Tuesday April 8 was not without any adverse affects, as seen from reports received from various places. Puttur, Bantwal, Sullia, and Beltangady taluks as well as most parts of Udupi district received good rain. Kundapur taluk however, reported light rain. Power layoffs and traffic bottlenecks have been a common complaint from almost all places.
Three persons died due to lightning in the coast. An elderly lady named Lilly D'Souza (80) died after a coconut tree got uprooted on her at Ullal Millathnagar near here. She was sitting on the platform in her house when the fallen tree directly crushed her to death She is survived by three daughters.
A youth lost his life due to lightning at Mangalpady near Kumble, Kasargod. Irshad (19), son of Muhammed from Mogralputtur, who was waiting for a bus by the roadside at Kukkar near Mangalpady, was killed when lightning struck him. Bushra (38), Irshad's mother, who was also with her son at the time, suffered serious injuries. She was shifted to a hospital in Mangalore for treatment.
Bogra Gowda (80), a resident of Puduvettu in Beltangady taluk, died instantly after lightning struck him on Tuesday evening. Bogra Gowda was sitting in front of his house, when he was hit by lightning. Two ladies named Aisamma (60) and Jameela (30) from Beltangady-Totadday village suffered grievous injuries due to lightning. Both of them were rushed to a hospital in Mangalore for treatment.
Due to lightning, a coconut tree caught fire at Agrar Gumpakallu in B Mooda village, and the family members of Narayan Kulal, who suffered shocks, escaped unhurt.
Three electric poles were razed to the ground due to the falling of a huge tree on power lines at Koonadka near Puttur. About 50 sheets covering a hall in Halamajalu in Subrahmanya were blown away. The court complex in Beltangady suffered damage due to a fallen tree.