Woman killed in house collapse; rain causes havoc in Venoor, Hosangady in Dakshina Kannada
The Hindu
A woman was killed in a house collapse as moderate to heavy rain continued to lash Dakshina Kannada since Wednesday night.
MANGALURU
A woman was killed in a house collapse as moderate to heavy rain continued to lash Dakshina Kannada since Wednesday night.
According to Revenue Department officials, Gopi, 58, of Janata Colony, Borugudde under Nellikaru Gram Panchayat near Moodbidri, was killed when her house collapsed owing to heavy rain on Wednesday night. Though she was admitted to a hospital following injury after the first aid at a clinic in Hosmar, she breathed her last.
Rain caused havoc in Venoor and Hosangady areas on the foothills of the Western Ghats in Belthangady taluk. Water from Hosangady and Venoor rivers, which are the tributaries of Phalguni river, entered more than 20 houses in Hosangady, Badakodi and Maroor villages. Many houses and buildings were filled with sludge. A minor bridge at Malady-Sonandur village was washed away. Farmland and private properties, including houses, were damaged.
“There was a cloudburst-like situation,” former Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Vice-President P. Dharanendra Kumar told The Hindu over phone from Hosangady village. The rain began around 7 p.m. on Wednesday and lasted till 4 a.m. on Thursday, he said.
Mr. Kumar said that the Belthangady-Venoor State Highway was under water till early on Thursday.
Sheshappa Naik from Badakodi village said there was chest deep water in his house. He lost 500 coconuts and about 300 baskets of manure. Anil Naik from Badakodi village said water had entered his house at 9.30 p.m. and receded at 3 a.m. “We shifted our cattle to a safer place. Our paddy field is completely damaged,” he said.
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