Bengaluru, July 22: A couple electrocuted when they came in contact with live electric wire in Bandepalya police station limits here on Sunday.

Police said that the deceased were identified as Veeranna and Lavanya of Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

They were living on the first floor of a house at Bandepalya. The power line was attached to the house. On Saturday, Lavanya washed her clothes and put them on a wire to dry and on Sunday morning, while she was removing the clothes, she accidentally touched the live electric wire. When she shouted, her husband Veeranna came to rescue her and both of them electrocuted when they touched the wire.

The couple has been living in the city for the last year. They have two children and running a petty shop for livelihood.



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It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.

Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.

Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.

Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.