Rains claim seven lives in Mysore

Seven people including three women of a single family were killed in the torrential rains that lashed Mysore near here in the early hours of Wednesday.

Four fishermen, who were sleeping by the side of Cauvery river in Mysore district’s K R Nagar taluk were, were struck by lightning while a mother and her two teenaged daughters were washed away in the flood waters in Mysore City.

Deputy Commissioner of Mysore Selva Kumar told reporters that a group of six fishermen, who had cast a net in the river, were sleeping by its side at Hosuru Kallahalli village near Mysore when lightning claimed the lives of four fishermen. Two others, who were injured in the lightning, had been admitted to a Government hospital at K R Nagar.

In Mysore City, a mother and her two daughters were washed away when they were sleeping in their mud hut built by the side of a huge storm water drain. The mud wall collapsed when the waters flooded their hut. The mother and her two daughters were swept away in the waters.

The authorities were hunting for the bodies of Mallaravadi, 32, and her daughters Deepu, 14, and Divya, 12. Mallaravadi’s husband Sudhakar, who works as a labourer at the agricultural produce marketing yard, managed to escape.

Minister in charge of Mysore district G T Deve Gowda visited the colony of mud houses built by the side of the storm water drain and directed the district administration to immediately remove all the fifty odd houses and provide alternative rehabilitation to its occupants.