Madikeri: The people died Monday in what is suspected to be an incident of electrocution. The incident was reported from Arwathoklu here in the Madikeri.

The deceased have been identified as Sathish (50), Igguda Ravi (45) and Mottera Dharmaja (50) who were plucking coconuts at the farm here.

According to the farm owner Ramajamma, the one of the farm the trio were plucking coconuts from the tree using a ladder, and the ladder must have come in connection with an 11 KV electric line which caused the electrocution of all the three. Though there were no eye-witnesses to the incident, it is believed with a prima facie look of the spot.

When the incident took place one of them had climbed up the ladder while the other two were holding it from ground.

The post-mortem of the body was conducted on the spot by the forensic expert and the bodies were handed over to the families.

Dy.SP Nagappa, CESC AEE Ankayya, J.E Krishna Kumar and others visited the spot and conducted initial investigation.

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Islamabad (AP): President Donald Trump says he told top US envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that "they can call us anytime they want.”

In a brief phone interview Saturday, Trump told Fox News that he told US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “you're not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”

Trump also said of the US side “we have all the cards.”

His comments came after the White House said Friday that Witkoff and Kushner would be heading to Pakistan for another round of negotiations with Iran.