Two men drown in river near Subrahmanya
Sullia: In an incident reported on Tuesday, two men, in their forties reportedly died after falling into river and drowning here near the bridge on the Subrahmanya-Yenekal Main Road on Monday night.
The deceased have been identified as Dharmapala Paramale, 46, and Belliappa Challangaru, Chokkady, 49, said sources.
A complaint was filed with the Subrahmanya Police regarding the deaths.
Dharmapala had been employed as a daily wage worker in the garbage disposal unit of the Subrahmanya Gram Panchayat, the sources added. The complainants have told the police that the men might have accidentally slipped into and drowned in the water of the river when they went to open the foot valve of the pump there.
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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.
