Haveri: 10-year-old boy washed away into overflowing drains while playing on roads after heavy rains
Haveri: The tempestuous weather running in the city overnight on Wednesday resulted in the death of a 10-year-old boy, Nivedan Gudageri, who fell into a drain in Shivajinagar area of Haveri amid heavy showers and was washed away.
On account of the heavy rainfall from late Wednesday night till dawn on Thursday, the drains in the city were overflowing and the roads too were inundated.
Nivedan was reportedly playing with his friends by the 3rd Cross in Shivajinagar which leads to the Old PB Road when he slipped and felled into the roadside drain, getting washed away with the rainwater.
The teams of the local fire brigade, police and the City Municipality searched in the waters for more than two hours before finding Nivedan and ensuring he received medical treatment at the District Hospital. The boy, however, died as he was unable to respond to the treatment.
The locals initially gathered outside the District Hospital on learning of Nivedan’s death. They also staged a protest, blocking the Shivajinagar 1st Cross and alleging that the encroachment of the drains and poor maintenance by the concerned authorities had caused the 10-year-old boy’s death.
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Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in northern Gaza kills 15
Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip), Oct 17: An Israeli strike on a school sheltering the displaced in northern Gaza on Thursday killed at least 15 people, including five children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
The Israeli military said the strike targeted dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad group who had gathered at the Abu Hussein school in Jabaliya, an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza where Israel has been waging a major air and ground operation for more than a week.
In a separate development, a building in central Beirut that houses offices of the Al Jazeera news network and the Norwegian Embassy was evacuated after a warning.
Al Jazeera reported that the building had been evacuated without saying where the warning had come from. Israel has ordered the evacuation of several buildings, as well as entire cities, towns and villages, as it strikes what it says are targets linked to the Hezbollah group.
There have also been several instances of evacuation warning calls and text messages that turned out to be bogus, which Lebanese security agencies say they are investigating.
In northern Gaza, Fares Abu Hamza, head of the ministry's local emergency unit, confirmed the toll from the Israeli strike and said dozens of people were wounded. He said the nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital was struggling to treat the casualties.
"Many women and children are in critical condition,” he said.
The Israeli military said it targeted a command centre run by both groups inside the school. It provided a list of around a dozen names of people it identified as group members who were present when the strike was called in. It was not immediately possible to verify the names.
Israel has repeatedly struck tent camps and schools sheltering displaced people in Gaza. The Israeli military says it carries out precise strikes on group members and tries to avoid harming civilians, but its strikes often kill women and children.
Hamas-led group triggered the war when they stormed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 others. Some 100 captives are still inside Gaza, about a third of whom are believed to be dead.
Israel's offensive has killed over 42,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. It does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but says women and children make up a little more than half of the fatalities.
