Rain lashes TN, 17 dead

At least 17 persons were killed in their sleep when a wall came down crashing on three houses at a village near Coimbatore on Monday, following heavy rain 

In Chennai, Chief Minister K Palaniswami condoled the deaths and announced a relief of  Rs 4 lakh each to the bereaved families from the State Disaster Relief Fund

Unhappy locals along with the vicitim’s relatives staged a sit-in and disruptedtraffic, demanding arrest of the owner of the land where the wall was built PTI