Mangaluru: Two prisoners test positive for Covid-19; Bajpe station sealed down
Mangaluru: Two men who had been in the custody of the Bajpe police tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, the station officer has said.
The two arrested men, aged 34 and 26 years, were residents of Bajpe. They were arrested on Tuesday by the Bajpe police under suspicion of planning cattle theft. They were later taken for a Corona test – the report received today showed them to have been infected, said the officer.
The two men were arrested by eight police staff members, and there is suspicion of the police too being infected. The throat swab samples of the police staff members have been sent to the District Wenlock Hospital.
As a precautionary measure, the Bajpe police station has been sealed down, said sources in the Police Department.
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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.
