Three youngsters drown while swimming in canal near Hospet
Vijayanagara: An outing for a swim in a canal on the outskirts of Hospet on Saturday turned tragic for a group of youngsters as three of them drowned in the water body.
The three deceased youth have been identified as Yashwanth, Anjini and Gururaj.
Hospet Rural Police registered a case and the investigating officers paid a visit to the canal area.
They have said that the group had consisted of six youngsters, who were college students and residents of Gundagram and MG Nagar of Hospet as well as Ningapur of Koppal.
The surviving members of the group were called to the Hospet Rural Police Station for questioning, it is learned.
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Vande Bharat train window damaged in stone-pelting incident near Kerala’s Palakkad
Palakkad (Kerala) (PTI): A Vande Bharat train operating from Ernakulam to Bengaluru sustained minor damage in a stone-pelting incident a day earlier, police said on Saturday.
The incident occurred near Parali in Palakkad district at around 4.30 pm on Friday, an officer of the Government Railway Police (GRP), Palakkad, said.
“No one was injured in the incident. One of the train’s windows suffered minor damage,” the officer said.
He added that the Railway Protection Force (RPF) has registered a case and launched an investigation.
“GRP and RPF teams are present at Parali as part of the investigation. The stones may have been thrown by a person of unsound mind or someone who was intoxicated,” the officer said.
