A 55-person wedding party consisting of women, children and the elderly returning home experienced a nightmare when the BMTC bus they were traveling on was hit by the heavy rain and couldn’t move an inch all Sunday night .
The passengers were on their way back from Devanahalli to Somashettyhalli near Chikkabanavara. Their bus was stranded in Yelahanka because the street was under a meter of water.
Sarojamma, a passenger on the bus, told DH that several buses in front of them broke down in the rain. “We were stuck a little in front of Yelahanka. Water whirled around and vehicles in front of us couldn’t move, ”Sarojamma said, adding that the drivers and conductors of the other buses were taking shelter in their vehicle. Their bus was the last on the line and was relatively less flooded.
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Sarojamma’s family rented the BMTC bus to commute to the wedding and had several wives, children, and the elderly in their group. “I took my grandson with me. Water got into our vehicle and we had to get up not to get wet, ”she said.
Passengers had to stay on the bus until 5:30 a.m. on Monday when the water receded after the rains. Sarojamma said she had never seen anything like it before in Bengaluru.
Stranded in the floating bus, passengers noticed that several cars and automobiles were washed away by the tide. They provided first aid to a drunk man who came up to them.
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