Bengaluru: In a joint operation by the Bengaluru North Division Traffic Police and RTO officials, 10 school vehicles were seized on Friday for violating traffic rules.
The special drive, conducted on July 11 between 6 am and 9 am, focused on ensuring the safety of schoolchildren and cracking down on traffic violations. A total of 771 vehicles were inspected during the operation.
Among the key violations noted were overloading of students, driving under the influence of alcohol, and other serious breaches of road safety norms.
The traffic police registered six drunk driving (DD) cases as part of the operation. Ten vehicles were seized and notices were issued to the owners through the RTO, according to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic-North) Sirigowri in an official statement.
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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.
