Slovakian man dies of electrocution in Bengaluru hotel swimming pool
Juraj Horvat died after being electrocuted in a pool at Hotel Conrad on Friday, according to his wife Silvia Hotuatova.
A Slovakian man died after being electrocuted in a swimming pool at Hotel Conrad in central Bengaluru on Friday, October 30. Juraj Horvat, 45, was swimming at around 5.15 p.m. hours after checking into the hotel with his wife, Silvia Hotuatova, 47.
Hotuatova told police she heard a loud noise near the pool and found Horvat motionless in the water. She said hotel staff sustained injuries while attempting to rescue him, and another person noticed an electric current in the pool.
Manipal Hospital stated that four people were brought to the facility on Friday evening. Horvat was brought in cardiac arrest, but despite resuscitation efforts, he could not be revived and was declared dead.
A second individual, identified as 57-year-old Lufthansa Airlines crew member Alexander Maximilian Theiss, was also brought to the hospital. The German national was declared brought dead.
A 26-year-old Conrad staff member who entered the water to attempt a rescue was hospitalised in a state of shock and is stable. An American national in his early 40s, who was also in the pool, was treated for a headache and shock.
The incident has reportedly left hotel staff and members of the airline crew traumatised.