SKHF's chartered flight with over 170 stranded Kannadigas takes off from Dammam for Mangaluru
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Dammam: A chartered flight with 173 stranded Kannadigas including eight infants took off from Dammam International Airport on Monday. The flight, arranged by Saudi Kannadiga Humanity Forum (SKHF) took off from Dammam at 2 pm KSA time and is expected to land at Mangaluru Airport later at night.
SKHF, an NGO was recently formed to help stranded Kannadigas in Saudi due to the COVID-19 crisis in their repatriation to India. The NGO was formed under the leadership of Zakariya Jokatte, who is also the president of the Bearys Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) Jubail Unit and KS Shaikh Karnire, Director of Expertise Contracting Company, Saudi Arabia.
The passengers who would take the flight to Mangaluru on Monday were shortlisted through an online portal, where people with emergencies for repatriation had to register themselves to be flown back to the home state. Those on the flight included aged people, people with medical emergencies, people struggling due to loss of jobs, pregnant women, and others.
The members of the organization were on Monday afternoon present at the Dammam International Airport to assist the people in regulating formalities to board the flight.
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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.
