Bantwal: 56-year old commits suicide fearing to have infected with coronavirus
Bantwal: Suspecting that he was infected with the deadly COVID-19 virus, a person in Meramajalu village of Bantwal Taluk committed suicide on Friday fearing that he would test positive for the virus. The incident has been reported under Bantwal Rural Police Station limits.
The deceased has been identified as Sadashiva Shetty (56), a local resident. Sadashiva committed suicide by hanging himself to a fan at his house, his wife reported in the police complaint.
Sadashiva was reportedly depressed claiming that he might have infected with the virus as he was working at a local petrol station. He had also added that if he test positive for the virus his family too would get infected with the deadly virus.
A case in this regard has been registered at Bantwal Police Station based on a complaint filed by his wife.
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Labourer dies of suffocation while cleaning 35-foot-deep well in Brahmavar; one other worker rescued
Udupi: Brahmavar Police have filed a case and are investigating into the death of a worker while cleaning an open well at Devadigara Bettu, behind the Mahalingeshwara Temple on Wednesday evening.
Two men were working at clearing the slush inside the 35-foot-deep well using bleaching powder, when one of the workers, 34-year-old Durgesh, developed breathing problems for want of oxygen and died of asphyxiation.
The local fire brigade staff members rescued the second worker, 50-year-old Adiveppa Kuri from the well. Both the workers, Kuri and Durgesh, were reportedly natives of Koppal district and were currently living in Salikere of Brahmavar taluk.
