Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Jul 8: A woman and her grandson died after a compound wall belonging to the neighbouring house collapsed due to heavy rain which drenched Puttur and surrounding places in the early hours of Saturday July 7. The incident happened at Salmara Hebbarabail in the outskirts of the city.
The incident happened when everyone was deep asleep. Parvathi (65), wife of the late Vishwanath Salian, and her grandson and son of Mahesh Kumar, Dhanush (12) died instantly after the wall fell on them. Dhanush was a seventh standard student of Sudana English Medium School, Manjalpadpu.
In this incident, a shed, platform built for Daivas, and the toilet were completely demolished. The loss has been estimated at Rs 12 lac.
Bharathi and Ramgopal Nidvannaya, residing in the backside of Parvathi's house, had built a 15 feet-tall compound wall having 40 feet length with the help of pillars in front of their house. Ramgopal had rented out a portion of his house to students.
On Friday night, Parvathi was sleeping along with sons, Mahesh, Yogeesh, Mahesh's wife, Shalini, and their children, Dhanush, Dhanvith, Yogeesh's wife, Shwetha and their son, Jeevith. Parvathi and Dhanush were sleeping in the rear side room. At about 2 am, the compound wall fell to the ground along with supporting pillars. Both Parvathi and Dhanush died instantly after having been crushed under the wall's weight, and others escaped unhurt. Parvathi's husband, Vishwanath, had died of ill health about a month back.
After post-mortem of the bodies were performed at the government hospital Puttur, the funeral was performed after bringing the bodies to the residence of a relative nearby.
In the other incident which happened in Sudekattemar in Anantady village, Bantwal taluk on Saturday, a woman accidentally fell into a well that was full due to heavy rain. The victim has been identified as Kamala (60), wife of the late Doomanna Gowda, resident of Sudekattemar, Anantady village.
Kamala had gone to bed after dinner on Friday night. In the morning, the family members found her missing. It is suspected that Kamala, who would have ventured out of the house for some purpose, might possibly have slipped and fallen into the well as she could not properly gauge its location.