Karnataka IPS officer accidentally gets shot by his own gun; hospitalised
Bengaluru: A top IPS officer in Karnataka suffered a bullet injury when his service revolver went off 'accidentally' while he was cleaning it at his residence here on Wednesday, police said.
Dr R P Sharma, serving as the Director General of Karnataka Police Housing Corporation, had been admitted to a private hospital with a bullet injury in his neck, they said adding his condition was stable.
"He has given in writing that it was due to accidental fire while cleaning the revolver," Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant told PTI.
The officer gave the statement to the investigating police team that the bullet got fired by mistake when he was cleaning his service revolver at his residence in Kothnur locality in the city, police said.
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Waste disposal unit, machinery in Brahmavar destroyed in fire accident
Udupi: A major fire accident occurred at the Solid and Liquid Resource Management (SLRM) unit of the Varamballi Panchayat in Brahmavar taluk in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, gutting the unit.
The fire broke out at the unit a couple of hours after midnight on Friday with a vehicle used by the unit for waste disposal exploding due to the fire at around 3 am on Saturday.
Fire and Emergency Services squads were called in from Malpe, Udupi and Kundapur. The personnel succeeded in dousing the flames with the help of the locals.
The entire waste disposal unit, however, is learned to be gutted, with the machines and other equipment being destroyed by the flames.
