Chartered flight from Sharjah lands at Mangaluru International Airport with 168 passengers
Mangaluru: A chartered flight from Sharjah, carrying 168 passengers and six infants landed at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Wednesday.
The Air Arabia flight, which left Sharjah at 9.45 pm (UAE time) Tuesday, landed at the MIA at 2.50 am Wednesday, airport sources here said.
The flight was arranged by Fortune Hotels group chairman Praveen Shetty.
Shetty, who is also president of the Karnataka Non- Resident Indian Forum (KNRI), had sent another chartered flight with 181 passengers from Ras Al Khaimah in UAE to Mangaluru on June 1.
The businessman has been extending help to the people of the state stranded in UAE due to job loss and health issues during the COVID-19 crisis.
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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
