Nilika Ponnappa, a 24-year old woman unfortunately died due to heart attack in Nelaji village in Napoklu recently.
She is daughter of Manavattira Ponnappa, a coffee planter and working at Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KoIMS) in Madikeri as an outsourced staff. It is reported that in morning as usual while leaving home to work, she experienced sudden severe chest pain and collapsed in her room even though her parents rushed to her room it is said that she died before that. The last rites were performed by the bereaved family.