Udupi: Load of timber destroyed, truck damaged in fire due to tyre blast in Kaup
Kaup: A truck transporting timber on National Highway 66 caught fire after one of its tyres blasted near Uliyaragoli Kotalakatte here on Friday morning.
The mishap occurred near the office of Bicco here. The tyre blasted when the truck was driving down the highway and gave rise to a fire. The flames then spread to the timber stacked up in the truck, which fuelled the fire, said sources.
The police who learned of the fire immediately informed the fire brigade. The staff of the brigade rushed to the area and doused the flames.
The truck is learned to have been damaged badly due to the fire mishap, and half the logs in the vehicle have been destroyed.
Kaup Police have registered a case and are conducting an investigation.
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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.
