Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jun 26: As if to prove the doomsayers wrong, heavy rain returned to the coastal districts of Karnataka. The twin-districts have been receiving good rains since the night of Wednesday June 24. As on Friday morning, the sky is covered with clouds and rain of less intensity has been soaking almost all the places in the two districts, bringing smiles back on the faces of the farmers.

Traffic suffered in parts of the city on Thursday as artificial floods were created because of the storm drains blocked by people who have created cement patches to bridge the height between the foot paths and the roads to pave way for the entry of vehicles, besides the road repair works going on in some places. A labourer was injured after the pit he was digging for a building in Ashoknagar area in the city caved in on Thursday.

There are reports that Puttur, Bantwal, Sullia and Beltangady taluks too have been receiving very good rains. Udupi recorded a rain of 10 cms till Wednesday morning. While most of the places in the coast received between five and seven cms, the city got three cms of rainfall. There has been long power lay offs presumably because of the rain, putting people to lot of inconveniences.

An agriculturists named Gopal Poojary (50) from Pernankila village in Udupi district died because of lightning, when he was about to leave his home to his fields on Thursday morning. He was immediately taken to a hospital, but was pronounced brought dead. Two houses in Muggeri of Havanje village in Udupi district too suffered partial damages due to lightning.