Shirur landslide: Eight days on, rescuers lock in coordinates of missing lorry after detecting heavy metal beneath Gangavali River | Bangalore News

Eight days on, rescuers have identified the coordinates of the lorry driven by a man who went missing after the July 16 landslide. The victim, Arjun of Kerala, Arjun, who is presumed dead, was driving a BharatBenz truck loaded with 40 tonnes of timber to Kozhikode from Belagavi when he stopped for tea on NH 66. Multiple rescue teams have been searching for him for nearly a week, with efforts hampered by continuous rain. “With the assistance of Navy and ISRO satellites, disaster management teams identified a large metal object…