A 31-year-old man was killed when a six-feet mud wall of a house fell on him in Mariyamman Kovil Street in Ramanathapuram on Friday morning.
The incident occurred at around 6.30 a.m. when S. Muthukumar was trying to move his motorcycle parked near the house. He died on the spot.
The police said the wall was damp because of incessant rain. Mayor S.M. Velusamy inspected the place and asked authorities to clear the rubble.
Mr. Velusamy said owing to heavy rain, three houses in Ganapathy had collapsed on Thursday and the Corporation officials and workers were working round-the-clock to clear the debris.
Roads
He said roads dug for storm water drainage work posed a major threat to residents and added that efforts were being made to re-lay the roads.
District Collector M. Karunakaran will give Muthukumar's family Rs. 1 lakh from the Natural Calamity Relief Fund.
Casualities
Coimbatore recorded quite a few casualities during the week because of the heavy rain.
A woman died at Koilpalayam near Kinathukkadavu in wall collapse while two others were washed away in flash floods in Bhavani river in Mettupalayam.
Two persons died near Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, with one of them falling into a roadside open drainage.
