Video of a man rescuing child from amid Bengaluru floods goes viral

  • | Saturday | 24th October, 2020

Most places over coastal Karnataka, south interior Karnataka and at isolated places over north interior Karnataka are also expected to receive more rainfall today.

Many videos and photos are coming up from Bengaluru depicting the hardship people of the city are going through since the heavy rainfall from Friday.

A Dramatic visuals from the city shows a few men rescuing a newborn in a flooded street near Bengaluru.

The rescue video viral on social media is claimed to be of Hosakerehalli area on Bengaluru`s outskirts . It shows a man carrying a 15-day-old baby above his head in shoulder-high water and handing the child to a woman. He is then seen wading towards another flooded house, accompanied by other men shouting instructions.

The young men also saved the life of a baby girl from another flooded home in the south Bengaluru area, where overnight rain flooded streets, and forced people to evacuate their homes.

Numerous other videos of flooding in Bengaluru, after the city received 13.2 mm rain from 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM on Friday, show cars getting swept away in low-lying areas; traffic was affected as vehicles, private and public, stalled in several feet of water.

According to the weather department, "light to moderate" rain flooded parts of "Bengaluru Rural, Bengaluru Urban, Tumkur, Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Ramanagara, Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts".

Most places over coastal Karnataka, south interior Karnataka and at isolated places over north interior Karnataka are also expected to receive more rainfall today.



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