Three people, including two children, were killed after a compound wall collapsed onto houses following heavy rain in the Garodi area of Mangaluru during the early hours of Wednesday.
The victims were from two of the four rented houses located below the compound wall. Police said the incident occurred between 4:45
a.m. and 5 a.m. within the jurisdiction of the Kankanady Police Station.
“There were four families residing in rented houses just below the compound wall. The rear walls of all four houses collapsed, while two families were directly affected,” Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy said.