Congress workers in Udupi block roads to protest CBI raids on DKShi; several leaders detained
Udupi: Condemning the CBI raids on KPCC President D K Shivakumar’s residence and offices, the Udupi District Congress staged a protest march and blocked the roads at Ajjarakaadu, on Tuesday morning here.
Hundreds of activists participated in the protest march, which commenced from Congress Bhavan at Brahmagiri and stopped at Ajjarakaadu, where the protesters blocked the roads and expressed their anger against the BJP led Central and State government. Several Congress leaders were detained by the police during the protest.
Congress leaders Kishan Hegde Kolkebail, Harish Kini, Prakyath Shetty, Krishnamurthy Acharya, Jyoti Hebbar, Veronica Cornelio, Yatish Karkera, Kushal Shetty, Janardhan Bhandarkar, Bhaskar Rao Kidiyur, Geeta Vaghle, Ismail Athradi, Shabbir Ahmed, Azeez Hejamadi were present at the protest.
Police superintendent Kumara Chandra, DYSP Jai Shankar, Police personnel Manjunath Gowda, Manjunath, and Tahsildar Pradeep Kurdekar were present at the venue to monitor the situation.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
