The people of Kerala in India’s southwest are famed for turning fish into spicy feasts fit for gods, but last week the heavens turned provider as fish rained down on the village of Manna, a newspaper reported on Monday.
When the clouds broke last Thursday, villagers said they saw small, pencil-thin live fish falling from the sky.
“Initially no one noticed it. But soon, we saw some slushy objects on the ground and noticed some slight movement,” Abubaker, a local shop owner, was quoted as saying in the Hindustan Times.
“I alone collected 30 ice-cold fish of which many died,” said the resident of Manna, 20 km (12 miles) from Kannur, in the north of the state.
Locals said the fish looked like parals, a common freshwater fish found in lakes and rivers.
Similar reports of objects falling from the sky — including frogs and tomatoes — have been put down to spiralling whirlwinds or waterspouts which suck them up from land or water. They fall back to earth once the wind speed drops and can no longer support them.
