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Karnataka Bureau

Bengaluru rains live | Woman electrocuted in IT city’s second wettest monsoon in 50 years, NDRF teams continue rescue ops

BENGALURU KARNATAKA 05/09/2022 : Flooded Rainbow Layout, due to Halanayakanahalli Lake breach after heavy rains, on Sarjapur road, in Bengaluru on September 05, 2022. Photo MURALI KUMAR K / The Hindu (Source: MURALI KUMAR K)

Even as unprecedented heavy rains continued to pound Bengaluru for the last one week, including on Monday night, bringing the city to its knees, a 23-year-old woman was killed due to suspected electrocution while she was returning home from work on her scooter in inundated roads in Siddapura, Whitefield.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rains in Karnataka till Friday, September 9. Very heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places over Coastal and South Interior Karnataka, including Bengaluru.

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