Heavy rain, thunderstorm lashes Coastal Karnataka; rainfall expected in Mangaluru over next 24-hours
Mangaluru: Unwarranted rain accompanied by thunderstorm and lightening lashed parts of Coastal Karnataka in the wee hours on Tuesday, giving slight relief to the people from the scorching heat while they are quarantined at home due to the country-wide lockdown due to the spread of coronavirus.
Parts of Uttara Kannada and Udupi District witnessed heavy rain and thunderstorm in the wee hours on Tuesday.
Bhatkal received heavy rainfall in Uttara Kannada District while Manki, Honnavar and Murdeshwar in the District also witnessed early morning showers and thunderstorm on Tuesday.
In Udupi District, reports of heavy rainfall and thunderstorm were received from Shirur, Byndoor, Bengre and parts of Kundapur, Tarasi were also received.
The meteorological department has predicted more rainfall on the coastline over the next 24-hours and has also predicted heavy – mild rainfall in parts of Dakshina Kannada including Mangaluru and Suratkal.
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Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site, state media says
Dubai (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63.
The crash comes as the Middle East remains unsettled by the Israel-Hamas war, during which Raisi under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched an unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel just last month.
State TV gave no immediate cause for the crash in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. Among the dead was Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, 60.
With Raisi were Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, the governor of Iran's East Azerbaijan province and other officials and bodyguards, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Early Monday morning, Turkish authorities released what they described as drone footage showing what appeared to be a fire in the wilderness that they “suspected to be wreckage of helicopter.”
The coordinates listed in the footage put the fire some 20 kilometres south of the Azerbaijan-Iranian border on the side of a steep mountain.
Footage released by the IRNA early Monday showed what the agency described as the crash site, across a steep valley in a green mountain range. Soldiers speaking in the local Azeri language said: “There it is, we found it.”
