Click to play videoBangalore: Torrential rains in Bangalore have claimed the life of a 39-year-old painter even as the Army continues its search for the body of a six-year-old who fell into an open drain last week.
The painter, Puttaswamy, was washed away in Wednesday night's floods and his 35-year-old wife left Anita is in shock.
Puttaswamy slipped while crossing a narrow bridge and fell into the overflowing drain below. His body was found in a clump of bushes nearly 500 feet away on Thursday morning.
"There was someone passing by who saw his body buried in the muck. We pulled it out and realised it was our neighbour who had been missing since night," said Shivanna, resident of Kempe Gowda Layout.
Bangalore is full of open storm water drains that are supposed to take away excess flood waters. But they invariably overflow when it rains heavily or even moderately.
Shoddy work, unfinished bridges and bridges built too low to be of any help have taken three lives this monsoon alone.
In another part of the city, residents were forced to build a makeshift bamboo bridge when a mud road was dug up.
But 30-year-old Uma fell off the bridge four days ago and survived with just leg injuries. Avoiding the dangerous bridge means a two-kilometre detour to the other side.
"People in this area have been requesting to put up temporary bridge because 100s pass this way. They have been saying for three-four days they'll put up bridge but no one came," pointed out local shop-owner Mehul Shah.
Torrential rains on Wednesday night have left residents in low-lying areas like Ejipura battling water logged homes and streets. Delays in desilting and deweeding have left citizens angry.
The bad news is that the monsoons have just begun.
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