Mangaluru: Custom officials seized gold from an air passenger at Mangaluru International Airport on Thursday.

Gold worth Rs. 34.18 lakh was seized and the passenger has been detained.

The incident occurred on July 24, when a passenger from a Dubai flight tried to smuggle gold in the form of a paste. The passenger was reportedly handed over to Bajpe police for further action.

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Belthangady: A woman in her mid-50s from Guddethota in Shishila village here died after suffering a snake bite while working in a plantation on Sunday.

The deceased, identified as Prema (55), was reportedly bitten by a cobra when working in a plantation located in Shishila village of the taluk on Sunday afternoon.

The members of the Shourya Disaster Response Team, who were informed of the incident, arrived at the plantation and took Prema to the Puttur Government Hospital, but the patient is learned to have died due to the intensity of the snake venom.

Prema is survived by her daughter and son.