Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Sep 11: Due to heavy rain that has been lashing the capital city of Karnataka since some days, several parts got inundated on Sunday September 11. Southern part of the city was virtually water-locked and people got stranded due to rising water level on the roads. After water level rose in roads, water gushed in a number of residential extensions.
A house in Devarajeevanahalli collapsed due to heavy rain, injuring two persons. Buildings also collapsed at Gopalapura on Magadi Road and near Hulimavu. However, as no one was inside, no loss or life or injury were reported. Passengers who were stranded for long in two KSRTC buses which partially drowned in water on Mysuru Road were rescued with the help of boats. Mysuru road was deep under water as Vrishabhavati main canal overflowed. The entire Mysuru road resembled a lake near Kengeri Jnanabharathi.
As Dubasipalya pond overflowed due to heavy rain received during the night, the Vrishabhavati main canal was flooded with water, which then overflowed into Mysuru road.
Traffic police were hard hit, as they had to struggle to lend a semblance of order to traffic. After traffic jam occurred at Mysuru Road and vehicles got stranded for hours, police struggled hard to divert the vehicles through other roads. After water entered the government hospital at Kaggalipura, 30 patients in the hospital were shifted elsewhere.
It is gathered that the fact that huge holes which dotted Vrishabhavati main canal on the roadside at a frequency of about ten metres fro one another, had got sealed after dirt, weeds, etc flowed in with water and got trapped in these holes. As the road is located at a level lower than the canal, the overflowing water entered the road. The sheets erected to support metro railway pillar work that is in progress at this area complicated the situation further as water got trapped there. Rescue team and staff of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagarra Palike cleared the holes of dirt and allowed water to flow out. In course of time, water drained out of the road and paved way for traffic as rain intensity too dwindled.
Two students drowned in an agricultural pond in Biganenahalli, Turuvekere taluk in Tumkur district. A mother-daughter duo also drowned in agricultural pond near Bangarpet in Kolar district. Two young men who tried to swim in a well in Bidar died.