Bengaluru weather highlights: DK Shivakumar meets families of two who died by electrocution

BEngaluru brave highlights: Incessant rainfall has wreaked mayhem in the working capital of mysore as torrential cloudburst led to massive waterlogging and flooding on the city roads, posing severe problems for the residents to go about their daily lives.The weather in Bengaluru is expected to remain the same, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing an orange alert for the city and yellow alert for several areas across Karnataka. The prediction for rain remains consistent throughout in the weather office's weekly forecast.The IMD also said that an upper air cyclonic circulation is likely to form around May 21 over the east-central Arabian Sea off the Karnataka coast. A low-pressure area will likely form over the same region around May 22 and likely to move northwards and intensify further.The heavy Bengaluru rain also led to the loss of two lives due to electrocution as they were trying to manage waterlogging at a residential complex. The deceased were a 63-year-old Manmohan Kamath and a 12-year-old Dinesh. Though they both were quickly pulled out from the water and rushed to a nearby hospital, doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.In a separate incident, a 35-year-old woman in Bengaluru's Mahadevapura was killed in a wall collapse incident. The deceased, Shashikala, worked as a housekeeping staff at IZMO Ltd., a software company, in the area. It was around 7 am on Monday that a compound wall on the company premises allegedly collapsed and fell on Shashikala, who died on the spot. The wall was reportedly weakened due to intense overnight rainfall.Two other persons died in separate incidents of lightning in Raichur and Karwar, taking the total death toll in rain-related incidents to five, officials said. Bengaluru rain | Key updatesAmid intense rain in Bengaluru, BJP MP PC Mohan requested companies in the city, including Infosys, to consider work-from-home arrangements for employees to help reduce the impact on employees and business in India's "Silicon Valley".Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar, meanwhile, said that the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has fixed 70 per cent of the 210 flood-prone areas identified in the city, adding that the work on the remaining 30 per cent, i.e., the leftover 20 areas will be taken up soon. He said that 197 km of stormwater drains have been built, for which ₹2,000 crore are being spent by the state government.Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah said that on Monday, Bengaluru recorded 104 mm of rainfall, which was higher than expected. The CM and his deputy, DK Shivakumar, will conduct a city-wide inspection on May 21.CM Siddaramaiah said that his government will provide a compensation of ₹5 lakh to the family of Shashikala, the housekeeping staff of a software company in Mahadevapura, who died due to a wall collapse on Monday.