Subrahmanya: BJP President Amit Shah, who visited the district last night to provide a momentum to party work in coastal region, visited Kukke Subrahmanya this morning.

Shah is in Karnataka as part of the party's election campaign for the upcoming assembly election in the state.

After arriving in Mangaluru last evening, he addressed a small public meeting near the airport. Today, he will address students at Vivekananda Institutions in Puttur on the role of the youth in building a "New India".

Shah will also visit the family of BJP worker Deepak Rao, a BJP worker who was murdered last month. After a press conference at Surathkal, Mr Shah will attend the Fishermen Convention at Malpe before heading to the Sri Krishna Matt.

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Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Dec 23: A woman sustained burn injuries after an overhead live wire snapped and fell on her in the district headquarters town of Kalaburagi on Monday.

The woman has been admitted to a private hospital with injuries to her hands, legs and stomach.

According to police, the electric wire fell on the school bus carrying intellectually disabled children and then landed on the woman.

The incident comes close on the heels of a 14-year-old boy dying of electrocution in the town on December 13.

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