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According to the police, repair work had been underway since morning.
The victim, Sunil Sharma (53), a local resident, was standing under the tree when the decaying branch snapped and fell.
The deceased, Saksham Tate (20), was brutally assaulted, his head smashed with a stone, and then shot dead by his girlfriend’s family, police said.
She was the daughter of writer Karoor Neelakanta Pillai.
A total of 41 plantation workers — 20 confirmed dead and 21 still missing — were among the hundreds affected by the catastrophic landslide.
A native of Kuttiyadi, Kozhikode, Jameela was a CPM leader and had served as the President of the Kozhikode District Panchayat.
The deceased has been identified as Harish M C (36), son of Channagowda, a resident of Chunchanakatte village in Krishnarajanagara (KR Nagar) district, about 40 km from Mysore.
It is Hong Kong's deadliest fire since 1948, when 176 people died in a warehouse blaze.
The victim, Sharon (55), a native of Jharkhand, was working as a rubber tapper at the Arayad Estate.
The accident happened around 6.30 am near the old RTO office in Koyilandy, Kozhikode, on National Highway 66.
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