71 killed due to excessive pre-monsoon rains in India’s Karnataka

The office of the Chief Minister of India’s Karnataka state has said that 71 people lost their lives due to excessive pre-monsoon showers in the state since April.

The pre-monsoon rains in 2025 is the highest rainfall recorded during the pre-monsoon seasons and in the month of May in the last 125 years, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said in a statement.

The state normally receives 74 mm of rainfall in May, but the actual rainfall was 219 mm, which is 197 per cent higher than the average normal rainfall, it said.

Similarly, in the pre-monsoon period of 2025 (March 1 to May 31), the state normally receives 115 mm of rainfall, but the actual rainfall was 286 mm, which is 149 per cent higher than the average normal rainfall.