Three electrocuted in separate incidents

Three persons were electrocuted in two separate incidents in Puttur taluk in the district here last evening, rural police said today.
Two daily wage workers carrying a wooden log from the forest area were killed when the log touched an electric pole which was grounded after an 11-KV insulator got punctured due to gusty winds at Anchinadka in Puttur, police said.
In another incident, a 61-year old man was electrocuted at Bhaktakodi village in Puttur while trying to remove a tree branch from an electrical line.
Police have registered cases for unnatural deaths.
Mangalore Electrical Supply Company (MESCOM) Managing Director Chikkananjappa in a statement here said that statutory compensation would be paid to the kin of the deceased.

Gusty winds accompanied by heavy rains had caused considerable damage to the electricity infrastructure in the region during the last few days.
Hundreds of electricity poles were uprooted and many transformers damaged, he said. The loss incurred by MESCOM in Dakshina Kannada district since the monsoon began was estimated at around Rs 2.79 crore.