Two Dead in Suspected Electrocution at Bengaluru Hotel Pool

Two men died and two others were injured during a suspected electrocution incident at the swimming pool of the Conrad Bengaluru on Friday, October 30. Police registered a negligence case against the hotel management and are investigating how electricity may have reached the water; the cause of the deaths has not been established. The men who died were Alexander Maximilian Theiss, 57, a German national and Lufthansa crew member, and Juraj Horvat, 45, a Slovak national and IBM project manager. They were at the hotel’s third-floor pool in Bengaluru’s Halasuru area. Police accounts placed the incident between about 5:15 and 5:30 p.m. An American hotel guest, Mathew Desantis, 41, and pool attendant and lifeguard Rahul Tiwari, 28, were injured while trying to rescue the men. Manipal Hospital said four people were brought in after the water-related incident: two died, while the two admitted patients were stable. Police registered the case after a complaint by Horvat’s wife. The case is under Section 106 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which covers causing death through negligence. Its registration initiates an investigation and does not establish that the hotel was negligent....