A 28-year-old youth died on the spot after a compound wall of a school collapsed on him, following heavy rains, at Rangenahalli in Holenarasipur taluk of Hassan district in Karnataka around 10 a.m. on May 18.
Shivakumar, a native of M.K. Hosur in Channarayapatna, was taking shelter next to the wall when it collapsed on him, in the limits of Halli Mysuru Police Station. The villagers said that the wall had been weakened following incessant rains.
Holenarasipur tahsildar and other officials visited the spot.