Mangaluru: Complete lockdown in Dakshina Kannada on July 26
Mangaluru: The one-week-long lockdown in Dakshina Kannada District ended on Wednesday with the District Administration, following instruction from CM Yediyurappa, did not extend the lockdown in the district.
The district will, however, observe a total lockdown on Sunday, July 26, with everything except for medical stores, hospitals, and milk shops set to remain closed in the district for one day.
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The lockdown will be in place from Saturday at 9:00 pm and will continue till Monday at 5:00 am.
All the commercial activities and traffic movement in the district will completely be restricted here.
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Israeli airstrikes on Rafah kill at least 22 people, Palestinian health officials say
Rafah (PTI): Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old.
Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes on Rafah since the start of the war and has threatened to send in ground troops, saying Rafah is the last major Hamas stronghold in the coastal enclave. Over a million Palestinians have sought refuge in the city on the Egyptian border. The United States and others have urged Israel not to invade, fearing a humanitarian catastrophe.
The overnight strikes hit three family homes. The first killed 12 people, including four siblings aged 9 to 27, according to records at the Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital, where the bodies were taken.
The second strike killed seven people, including a 33-year-old father and his 5-day-old boy, according to hospital records. The third strike killed three siblings, aged 23, 19 and 12.
The war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, around two-thirds of them children and women.
Israel blames the high civilian death toll on Hamas because the groups fight in densely populated areas. But the military rarely accounts for individual strikes, which often kill women and children.
