Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (MS)
Kundapur, Jun 30: A man fell into a roadside drain that was filled with rain water near Thekkatte government PU college on NH 66 and died on Thursday June 29.
The deceased is identified as Sanjeeva Mogaveera (67), a resident of Barkur.
It is said that Sanjeeva sat on the small culvert above the drain in order to get some relief from tiredness and must have lost his balance and fallen into the drain.
Hyder, who works in nearby Puranik Complex, saw Sanjeeva falling into the drain and immediately alerted locals.
Though former member of zilla panchayat Ganapati T Sriyan, mechanic Lokesh, Santhosh, Chandra Devadiga, Suresh Devadiga rushed to the rescue of Sanjeeva, he had already breathed his last.