Chikkasandra residents mourn JDS worker's death in Sri Lanka blasts

Bengaluru: On Monday, the Karnataka government had received information about the death of five persons Ramesh, KM Lakshminarayan, M Rangappa, KG Hanumantharayappa and Narayan Chandrashekar. They had lost their lives in a series of bomb blasts in Sri Lanka.

On Tuesday, the residents of Chikkasandra voluntarily called for a bandh and closed the shops in the area to pay their last respects to M Rangappa who is from Chikkasandra. Minister of external affairs Sushma Swaraj's tweet also confirmed that two other JD(S) workers who went missing on Monday were also dead.