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 Villagers clamour for fish from the sky

    July 25 2006 at 03:09AM

Thiruvananthapuram, India - Fish rained down on the Indian village of Manna last week, startling locals who hailed the phenomenon as a miracle.

In an echo of the Bible's manna from heaven, fish up to 55mm in length plummeted to the ground for 15 minutes in the remote village in the southern state of Kerala.

"I saw fish falling from the sky. At first, we could not believe our eyes," said shopkeeper V.K. Satheeshan.

Residents quickly collected the fish, with some gathering them in jars.

"When I rushed to the spot, I found lots of small fish on the road. Some of the shopkeepers collected fishes in jars," said M. Rajeevan, a local journalist from Manna.
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The pencil-thin fish were likely lifted into the sky from rivers by a waterspout, or mini-tornado, according to professor Godfrey Louis of Mahatma Gandhi University in the Kerala city of Kottayam.

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