Parts of DK district receive heavy downpour on weekends, spell likely to continue till Dec 11
Mangaluru: Several pockets of the Dakshina Kannada district received heavy rainfall on Saturday and Sunday night, while a yellow alert has been issued by the met department till Monday (Dec 11) Morning.
Heavy rains accompanied by thunder were reported to have occurred in urban and rural regions of the district during the night on the weekend.
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Meanwhile, minor damages due to the heavy rain were reported from some regions.
While Mangaluru city, Puttur, Bantwal, Sullia and Bellare received good rains on Saturday night, On Sunday heavy rains lashed several parts of Belthangady.
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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.
