Mangaluru: A vehicle transporting meat from Kudroli to Kankanady market was intercepted and its driver was assaulted by miscreants on Sunday morning near Kankanady here.
According to the reports the meat that was being carried in the vehicle was licenced for sale.
The incident took place when Rasheed, a resident of Kudroli was transporting about 200 kg of beef on his rickshaw tempo to a beef stall belonging to one Zakir at Kankanady market.
At this point, a gang of five-six miscreants arrived on a car and a bike and intercepted the vehicle on Highland hospital-Kankanady road. They then attacked Rasheed, damaged the rickshaw tempo and poured kerosene into the beef. Later, the miscreants fled the scene when locals started gathering there, reads a complaint filed with Kadri police.
Meat Traders' Association and Kankanady Market Association's president Ali Hasan has condemned the incident in which miscreants attacked a man for transporting meat who had got a license from Kudroli slaughterhouse.
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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.
