Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (MS)
Mangaluru, Jul 26: A woman suffered injuries when a hill collapsed and fell on her house at Mallur on the outskirts of the city in the wee hours of Monday July 26.
The injured woman is identified as Beepathumma (72). The coastal districts are experiencing heavy rains since some days. On the night of Sunday also there was non-stop rain. Due to this the huge hill behind the house of Zubair near Mallur junction collapsed at 5.30 am on Monday. Beepatumma’s eyes got injured in this incident. As she was alone at home no other loss of life occurred fortunately.
Zubair’s family was also living in the same house. However, they left for his wife’s house on Sunday. Otherwise the disaster would have been of greater magnitude as per local leader N E Mohammed.
Local panchayat president Ismail Bollankini, members Ilyas Paade, Hasan Bava, T Abbali and Suma Shetty visited the hospital and took details of the incident from the injured Beepatumma.