Mandya: A farmer, who was dousing an accidental fire that had engulfed his standing sugarcane crop, has been charred to death. The incident took place at Modachakanahalli village in the taluk yesterday.
The deceased farmer has been identified as Mahalingaiah (60). Yesterday at about 1 pm, Mahalingaiah observed that fire had engulfed sugarcane grown in his field and went forward to douse it. But within a few minutes, the fire spread to adjoining fields and thick smoke emanating from it.






