Bengaluru rain: elderly man and boy electrocuted while removing floodwater

The incident took place around 6.15 am when Kamath was about to remove floodwater from the basement. He had hired a pump set to flush out the water. As soon as they switched the pump set on, Kamath was electrocuted because of a short circuit, followed by Dinesh, the police said.

Dinesh’s father Bharat, who is from Nepal, was working inside the apartment at the time.

The police shifted the bodies to a nearby hospital for a postmortem.

In a third rain-related death Bengaluru city has reported within the past 12 hours, Shashikala, a 35-year-old housekeeping employee at IZMO Ltd, located in the Mahadevapura police limits, was killed when the IT firm’s compound wall collapsed on her.

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