Mangaluru, Udupi receive thundershowers, bring relief from severe heat
Mangaluru/Udupi: Mangaluru city, which had been struggling with intense heat for about a month now, experienced light showers with thunder and lightning on Saturday evening.
The people of the city had been battling against severe heat that had reportedly crossed 40 degrees Celsius and were greatly relieved by the showers that reduced the temperatures by night on Saturday.
While the rural regions of Dakshina Kannada, including Belthangady and Bantwal, are learned to have received showers over the last few days, Mangaluru city had been deprived of rain and only recorded an increase in temperature.
On Saturday evening, the clouds that covered the skies brought relief for the locals in the form of rain, along with thunder and lightning.
In Udupi, the Saturday rain with heavy wind, thunder and lightning gave signs of pre-monsoon showers setting foot in the coastal regions.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has given safety guidelines for people to follow especially during thunder and lightning.
The NDMA has advised people to avoid getting out of their houses during heavy showers and necessarily keep a watch on the weather forecast before doing so. Farmers have been advised not to attend to work in the fields or take cattle out for grazing. Fishermen have also been told not to go fishing and avoid taking their boats out into the sea.
Under circumstances of lightning, stay away from constructions with metal sheets as roof and from water bodies like lakes, streams and rivers. Keep away from power lines and poles, telephone lines, mobile towers, and also railway lines, the NDMA has told the people.
Udupi Deputy Commissioner Swaroopa TK, who is also Chairperson of the District Disaster Management Authority, in a special statement, has asked people to contact on toll-free number 1077 or phone number 0820-2574802 in case of emergency.
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36 injured as private bus plunges off bridge in Karnataka’s Shivamogga
Shivamogga (Karnataka) (PTI): Thirty-six people were injured on Monday after a private bus allegedly went out of control and plunged off a bridge in the district, police said.
The incident occurred at around 1.30 pm near Kagehalla in Veerapura village of Bhadravati taluk, they said.
According to police, the bus was travelling from Channagiri in Davanagere district to Bhadravati when the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle near a bridge across a stream.
The bus hit the bridge’s side barrier and overturned into the stream below, which had a very low water level.
A total of 36 people, including the driver and conductor, were injured in the accident, a senior police officer said.
Of them, 25 sustained minor injuries and were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, he added.
A case has been registered at the Bhadravati Rural police station, and further investigation is underway, police said.
