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Karnataka Rain News Live Updates: CM Basavaraj Bommai visits flood-hit areas in Bengaluru
Karnataka Rain News Live Updates: CM Basavaraj Bommai, along with his cabinet ministers and senior officials, on Thursdy visited flood-hit areas in Bengaluru following heavy rainfall. Stay with TOI for all updatesRead Less
Slow vehicle movement on Mysuru- Bengaluru road in Mandya district due to damaged roads.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected over Kerala and coastal and south interior Karnataka during the next two days and a substantial reduction in rainfall intensity over the region from May 21: India Meteorological Department
Shivamogga MLA KS Eshwarappa inspects at Bhapuji Nagar area to take stock of the situation.
A damaged road due to heavy rainfall in Kodagu district.
There has been a very heavy rainfall within a very short period of time, this has happened for the first time after nearly forty to fifty years. In some places it was 100 mm and has also gone up to 120mm in some areas. According to an estimate, the rain that should have happened in the entire May month happened in just about four to five hours.
CM Basavaraj Bommai
Contact numbers of BBMP zonal control rooms
Karnataka rain fury: Photos of flooded streets, uprooted trees
Heavy rain continued to lash several parts of Karnataka on Thursday morning. The residents struggled their ways through waterlogged streets. See pics
Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai, along with his cabinet ministers and senior officials, visit flood-hit areas in Bengaluru following heavy rainfall here.
Marooned and hungry, they waited for food packets
The heart-wrenching sight of people struggling to secure food in several parts of Horamavu, east Bengaluru, bore testimony to the deep impact of the floods caused by night-long rain. Horamavu in Mahadevapura zone received the highest rainfall in Bengaluru (155mm). Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials are still in the locality pumping out water and assessing the damage. Read full story
Hubballi receives light showers
#Karnataka: Hubballi receives light showers; visuals from this morning. (ANI) #KarnatakaRainfall #HubballiRainfall https://t.co/DliIRk3aMg
— TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) 1652932845000Though the Met department’s orange alert fizzled out without much rain on Wednesday, Thursday morning presented a different picture with the entire coast receiving moderate to heavy rainfall. The rainfall was steady without any gusty winds, thunder and lightning.
Children returning from their schools after Dakshina Kannada district administration declared a holiday for schools at 8.25am on Thursday.
Holiday declared in Shivamogga district for anganavadis, primary schools, higher primary schools and high schools
Holiday also announced for schools in Mandya.
Holiday announced for schools in Mysuru
Following heavy rainfall in most parts of the city, a holiday announced for all primary, higher primary and high schools.
The duo – Dev Bharath Kushwaha (36) and Ankit Kumar Sahni (23) from Bihar – was part of a 9-member team that was carrying out welding works for the Cauvery water pipelines in the layout when they got trapped in the rainwater that gushed inside.
This is what led to the death of the two workers inside a Cauvery water pipeline in Upkar Layout in Ullal area.
Water overflowed from stormwater drains and gushed in all directions.
Tuesday’s rain wreaked havoc in Bengaluru with knee-deep water everywhere and vehicles partially-submerged in the rainwaters.
According to scientists at the regional observatory of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Bengaluru witnessed about 114. 6 mm of rainfall, out of which more than 100 mm of rainfall was received in less than 12 hours since Tuesday evening. A yellow alert (heavy rain) has been sounded for Bengaluru for Thursday.
