Heavy rain in Bengaluru on Monday night time prompted chaos on the Bengaluru airport, delaying no less than 20 flights and resulting in the diversion of a number of flights. The town has been battered by heavy rain, forcing the closure of faculties for the second time in every week.
Bengaluru rain: A number of underpasses have been flooded because of the rain.(X)
Over twenty flights headed to the Karnataka airport have been delayed on Monday night time as the town, particularly its northern components, noticed heavy rain and thunderstorm. An Air India flight from Delhi and 4 Indigo flights have been diverted to Chennai, airport sources instructed HT.com.
Until 9 pm on Monday, flight landings have been regular on the Kempegowda Worldwide Airport positioned within the northern suburb of Devanahalli, the sources added.
Flights started to get delayed following this and extra delays are reportedly anticipated.
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Yelahanka hardest hit
Yelahanka and different areas in north Bengaluru, similar to Sahakar Nagar, noticed torrential rain on Monday night time. Social media was flooded with movies and posts of flooded roads and underpasses.
The railway underpass in Sahakar Nagar, close to Mall of Asia, was flooded, leading to a number of vehicles being submerged in water.
Check out this video: Bengaluru rain cripples regular life, low-lying areas flooded
The heavy rain which were battering the town for the previous two days have thrown regular life out of substances and resulting in waterlogging in a number of low-lying areas and roads.
Faculties and Anganwadi centres have been closed on Monday as a precaution.
That is the second time inside every week that colleges are being shut owing to rains in Bengaluru.
Folks waded by the flooded roads to achieve their vacation spot in a number of components of the town.
A number of bushes got here down crashing within the metropolis affecting vehicular motion.
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Bengaluru climate
The Met division has warned of heavy rainfall on Tuesday in components of south inside Karnataka, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
The climate workplace had sounded orange alert in Bengaluru for Monday. An orange alert means very heavy rain of 11 cm to twenty cm.
In a bulletin, it stated, “Moderate to heavy Rain/thundershowers accompanied by lightning is likely to occur at isolated places over Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural districts.”