Mangaluru: Police file suo-moto case for allegedly offering Namaz on road
Mangaluru: The city police have lodged a suo-moto case amidst social media outrage over a purported video of people offering Namaz on the road. The video clipping doing rounds on social media was reportedly filmed on May 24 and is claimed to be from a road near a masjid in the city's Kankanady area.
The video of individuals performing Namaz on Friday has been circulating on social media since Monday, May 27. Many expressed outrage over the video.
Meanwhile, the Kadri police have registered a suo-moto case under IPC sections 341, 283, 143 and 149.
The video has been checked and a suo-moto case has been registered against the individuals for allegedly obstructing vehicular traffic and public, said Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Anupam Agarwal.
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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.
