Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jun 11: After a brief respite during daytime on Friday June 10, the twin districts received heavy rainfall during the night and on the morning of Saturday June 11.

On Friday, the sun shone brightly most of the time. By evening however, clouds gathered, and the twin-districts got good rain at night.

While Subrahmanya in Sullia taluk received good rain, rain was scant in parts of Beltangady, Puttur, Bantwal, Mangalore, Udupi, Kundapur and Karkala taluks during the day. A house in Prakashnagar in Someshwar village near the city suffered partial collapse, inflicting a loss of about a lac of rupees on its owner. MLA, U T Khader, visited the spot and urged the district administration to release relief to the family immediately.

Castle Rock in Uttara Kannada district and Kottigehara in Chikmagalur district recorded the heaviest rainfall of 10 cms each in the state. The coastal belt accounted for between one and six cms of rain.