Bhatkal: A man and his daughter died on the same day on Monday at Marukeri in the taluk. 

A 15-year-old girl Kavya Ram Gonda, a resident of Marukeri Hejjilu was suffering from breathlessness and died at a hospital in Udupi. On the same day, her father Ram Sukra Gonda (46) too died at his residence due to cardiac arrest.

Kavya was studying SSLC at Kittur Rani Channamma Residential School in the taluk.