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Rain likely for two more days in the district

LIFE GOES ON: In spite of rain, people went about their routine activities at Urwa Stores in Mangalore on Sunday.

MANGALORE: Rain was unabated in Dakshina Kannada on Sunday. Asked for the weather forecast, an official of the Meteorological Department at Bangalore said: “Many places in coastal Karnataka are likely to receive rain or thunder showers in the next 48 hours.”

It has been raining in many places in the district for the past five days. S.A. Prabhakar Sharma, Headquarter Assistant to Deputy Commissioner, said that no major damage to property or life had been caused by rain in the district.

Chandrashekar Kamath, zilla panchayat member from Bellare in Sullia, said that construction of Ashraya houses had been stopped owing to rains. K.T. Kaveriappa, tahsildar of Belthangady taluk, said there was extensive damage to crop in Kutlur and Naravi villages. Reports of huts getting damaged in Mundaje, Ilinthila, Kalleea and Padanangadi villages owing to rainfall were coming in, he said. Mr. Sharma said that rain had given respite to people in Manjanady and Belma villages in Mangalore taluk.

Udupi Staff Correspondent reports: One person was killed and one injured by lightning, while three houses were damaged owing to rainfall and lightning in Karkala taluk of the district. Karkala tahsildar K. Muralidhar told The Hindu on Sunday that Girish Shetty (36) was sleeping in his house at Miyar village when lighting stuck at around 11 p.m. on Saturday, killing him instantly. A woman, Surekha Sherigar, suffered minor injuries when lighting stuck her house at Mala village. The electrical appliances in her house were burnt. Rain accompanied by wind had partially damaged two houses in the taluk, he said.

Udupi tahsildar Udaykumar said 16 incidents of minor damage to properties had been reported in the taluk on Friday and Saturday. Kundapur tahsildar Arun Prabha said that a house and a shop were damaged at Byndoor in the taluk on Sunday.

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