Mangalore : A quick fire at midnight of Saturday (No.9) in a house of Rukmayya Poojary and his wife Kuloor near the port area in Mangalore, destroyed whatever the elderly couple had in their house altogether .
They lost Rs.5000, ornaments, clothes, furniture and machinery like grinder, and many other articles and utensils worth around Rs. 4 lacks.
The unfortunate couple, alerted by their neighbours who saw smoke coming out of the back of their house, helped them to run out of their house with only the clothes they were wearing, and the couple were reduced to instant poverty having lost everything in fire. They have now made a petition to the government claiming compensation to rebuild their house.
It may be noted they had three grown up children who were far away from their place in their own houses and did not know about the tragedy that struck the old couple.
MLA Mohiuddin Bava visited the site of a house reduced to ashes and consoled the couple in the grief to tell them that he would request the government to help them in need.