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Karkala: Lightning Strikes Three Women - One Critically Injured

  •   Fri, May 22 2009 10:43:47 AM

from Shekhar Ajekar
Daijiworld Media Network - Karkala (RD/CN)
 
Karkala, May 21: Three women were hospitalized after lightning struck their house in Dugganabettu, near Ajekar, at 5.30 pm on Thursday May 21.  The torrential rains coupled with heavy winds and often with lightning have been lashing the coastal district over the past few days
 
Shakuntala, Shashikala, and Revati, were injured after lightning struck their house and plantation.  All of them were admitted to a private hospital by their neighbour Sunil Bhat.  Sources said that one of them lies in the ICU.
 
Lightning has also damaged their palm plantation.  Village accountant Raghunath Acharya and Tahsildar Acchyut P visited the injured at the hospital and also undertook a survey of damage to the property.
 
Many deaths due to lightning have been reported from Ajekar, Kervashe, Muniyalu, Andaru, and Shirlalu, across the taluk.

  

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  • Robin, Kundapura

    Sat, May 23 2009

     This is a common news we get during the start of Monsoon (Mungaaru) and closing of Monsoon (Hingaru). The lightening strike takes many lives every year. The authority and neighbours visit and give condolences and return. So far no concrete remedy or guidance for the rural people about their safety during the incidents were made. No study of earlier lightening strikes were conducted and guiding the people about the seriousness of lightening. We can see uneducated people freely walk on the open places and kids playing while thunderstorms were pounding heavily. Some are of deep knowledge that it is the GODS Play!!!! We also hear about strikes in the same places every year in Karkal Taluk. May be the rich iron content of quarries attract the lightening. If so, atleast some lightening arresters should be erected in places were more strikes were reported every year. I also saw 2 incidents of strike happened in front of me. Hope the District Administration will look these havocs and make scientific analysis of the same. Let all of us demand the authorities to find some scientific solutions for these problems.

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