India, May 3 -- A spell of sudden rain and strong winds lashed the city on Thursday night, killing a 45-year-old man and felling several trees and disrupting traffic movement.

Though the city recorded just 20mm of rain on Thursday, the strong winds that accompanied the thundershower were powerful enough to uproot trees, causing significant damage. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) attributed the conditions to localised thunderstorms caused by moisture inflow from both the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.

The victim, an auto-rickshaw driver, died after a tree came crashing down on his vehicle near a bus stop on Kathriguppe Main Road, police officers aware o the matter said on Friday.

The victim, identified as Mahesh (single na...