Two dead after suspected electrocution at Bengaluru hotel pool

Two foreign nationals died and two people were injured during a rescue attempt at the Conrad Hotel swimming pool in Bengaluru on October 30, as police investigated suspected electrocution and how the pool area may have become electrically charged. The deceased were identified by police as Alexander Maximilian Theiss, 57, from Germany, and Juraj Horvat, 45, from Slovakia. The incident took place at the hotel’s third-floor pool. Police have registered a case and are investigating the circumstances, including the source of any electrical charge. The precise cause of death has not been established. Mathew Desantis, 41, and Rahul Tiwari, 28, were injured while trying to rescue the two men, according to police-linked reports. Desantis, an American staying at the hotel, and Tiwari, a pool attendant and lifeguard employed there, were taken to hospital. Reports said both were out of danger. Police are examining whether an electrical fault or a lapse in safety arrangements contributed to the incident. Those are investigative possibilities, not established findings. No technical determination of how the pool area became electrically charged was reported, and the investigation was ongoing...