Customs seize gold worth Rs 1.59 crore at Mangaluru International Airport
Mangaluru, Oct 22: Customs officers at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) have seized 3,124.54 gm of 24 carat purity gold valued at over Rs 1.59 crore from October 8 to 21.
The gold valued at Rs 1,59,66,883 was seized from five male passengers who arrived from Dubai, a customs release here said Saturday.
The gold was smuggled through different modus operandi like concealment in the paste powder form mixed with solid gum inside jeans, trousers and inner wears worn by the passengers.
Concealing the gold in the rectum and through towels dipped into some solution containing gold were other means of smuggling, the release said.
The Customs Officers at MIA seized 3124.540 grams of 24 Carat purity gold valued at Rs.1,59,66,883/- during 08.10.2022 to 21.10.2022 from 5 male passengers arriving from Dubai who attempted to smuggle concealing in Rectum,Towels and Jeans trousers,underwears worn by PAX. pic.twitter.com/kUNR0iXpOB
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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.
