Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Aug 31: After providing the residents of Karnataka coast some respite from unrelenting rains on Sunday, rain fury returned to haunt them on Monday August 30. Incessant rains were reported from almost all the taluks in the twin-districts, and the rainfall turned particularly heavy in the evening.

Apart from Sullia, Subrahmanya, Karkala, Udupi and Puttur, the city too got good rains. Normal rains were reported in Kundapur and Beltangady taluks. The rainfall was quite heavy in Udupi taluk and Kodagu district.

A few houses and compound walls collapsed, and several establishments in Sullia suffered losses due to the rainwater entering their shops and machineries. Rivers have been overflowing and drains are clogged.

A purse seine boat, ‘Sri Ramanjaneya’, owned by K Tukaram Salian from Mulihitlu here, which had ventured out for fishing from the local port a few days ago, sank a little away from Manki port near Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district because of volatile conditions in the sea, on Monday. All the 28 fishermen in that boat were rescued by the fishermen from other boats, in response to the SOS message beamed by the boat over wireless.