HAL explains cause for 'terrifying sounds' in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has said that the odd loud sounds heard in many places of the city were due to the flight of the Sukhoi SU-30 war planes.
People in areas like HR Layout, Marathalli, C V Raman Nagar, Varthur, Kundalahalli, Electronic City, Halasur, Whitefield, Tin Factory and Koramangala heard loud noises at around 1:20 pm on Wednesday. The citizens were worried by the noises and assumed them to be bomb blast or gas cylinder blast. There were also discussions on the social media on the noises and the possible cause, giving rise to a question if the city was witnessing an earthquake.
Explaining the matter, HAL said that the Sukhoi planes took off from the HAL runway on Wednesday. “When the Sukhoi S-30 war planes make a 90-degree take-off, such loud sounds are caused and spread till about 10 kilometres. The noise heard at various parts of the city was because of such take-off of the war planes,” the HAL has said.
'No earthquake'
The seismograph has not recorded any earthquake in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Dr G S Srinivasa Reddy, director of the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, has said.
“The people need not panic on hearing the loud sounds in the city. There has been no earthquake. We are finding the causes for the sounds,” Bhaskar Rao, City Police Commissioner of Bengaluru, has assured.
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Man shoots woman dead, hangs self in UP’s Baghpat over unrequited love
Baghpat (UP) (PTI): A 20-year-old woman was shot dead by a man who later committed suicide in an apparent case of unrequited love in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat on Thursday, police said.
The incident took place in Mahavatpur Bawli village in the Badaut area, where the accused, Satnam, 22, allegedly shot the woman before hanging himself from a tree, they said.
Superintendent of Police, Suraj Kumar Rai, said preliminary findings suggest the incident was linked to unrequited love, adding that all aspects of the case are being probed.
According to police, the deceased woman, Guddan, daughter of Lakhmi Saini, worked as a tailor from her home.
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Satnam, a resident of the same village, had allegedly been in one-sided love with her for a long time and was pressuring her to marry him.
Police said that around 10.30 am, Guddan stepped out of her house to buy some items when Satnam, who was already waiting in a back lane, stopped her.
An argument ensued, following which he allegedly shot her in the head with a country-made pistol.
The woman collapsed on the spot with serious injuries.
The accused then went back to his house and committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree, police said.
Upon receiving information, police rushed to the spot and took the injured woman to a community health centre, where doctors declared her dead.
A forensic team recovered the weapon used in the crime from the scene, they added.
Police have sent both bodies for post-mortem and initiated an investigation, they said.
