- Many trees uprooted, electric poles damaged
- MLA A.S. Ponnanna visits spot, instructs officials to take immediate steps
Virajpet: Heavy rains, accompanied by gusty wind, thunder and lightning, which lashed Virajpet and surrounding places yesterday morning has brought down a huge branch of a tree on Virajpet-Siddapura Road near Sunkadakatte on hi-tension power lines, snapping the wires and bringing down a couple of electric poles in the process. This resulted in traffic coming to a standstill on the Virajpet-Siddarapura Road. Vehicles were stranded on both directions due to closed road.
