Bengaluru: Three more held in former BJP corporator murder case
Bengaluru: Three more people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the murder of former BJP corporator Rekha Kadiresh.
Two prime accused, who had attacked and stabbed Rekha were arrested on Friday after opening fire at them when they tried to evade arrest, and have been admitted to hospital for treatment.
Rekha Kadiresh was hacked to death in broad daylight at the city's Cottonpet area on Thursday morning.
Her husband Kadiresh was also murdered in 2018.
Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Kamal Pant on Friday said two of the accused were known to Rekha and had been her trusted associates for several years now.
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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.
