Two persons died due to lightning while another was electrocuted during the heavy rains that lashed parts of Mysuru district on Sunday evening.
According to sources in the Disaster Management Cell of Mysuru district, a 42-year-old farmer, Harish, was returning home from the fields in Beejaganahalli near Mantikoppal in Hunsur Taluk around 10.30 p.m. when he was struck by lightning and died.
In another incident, Lokesh, 55, a resident of Avarthi village in Periyapatna taluk, was struck by lightning when he was grazing cattle on Sunday evening.
Meanwhile, Swamy, an 18-year-old youth, was reportedly electrocuted near Kudakoru village in Bettadapura police station limits on Sunday evening when he stepped on a live wire that had snapped and fallen on the ground.
Along with Swamy, two others sustained burn injuries and were undergoing treatment at a hospital in Mysuru.
The heavy rains accompanied by thunder and lightning reported from parts of Mysuru district including the city had also uprooted several trees.
Meanwhile, sources in the Disaster Management Cell said one more death had taken place on May 19 when Shobha, 40, a construction worker, died in Kundegala village of Periypatna district after a tree fell on the asbestos roof under which she had taken shelter.
