A man and a boy were electrocuted while clearing the basement of an apartment of floodwater using a pump set on Monday after heavy overnight rain in Bengaluru, police said.
The deceased have been identified as Manamohan Kamath, 63, a resident of Madhuvana Apartment at Dollar’s Colony in BTM Second Stage, and Dinesh, 12, who is the son of a helper who worked in the apartment.
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.
