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Nilam fury: Missing Kasargod sailors yet to be traced; one body found

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November 2, 2012

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Kasargod, November 2: The body of one of the five missing sailors of ship MT Pratibha Cauvery, which got grounded by cyclone Nilam, was found in the sea waters near Chennai today.

 

The body is yet to be identified.

 

Meanwhile, there is no trace of the other four missing sailors even two days after the ship hit ground near the Besant Nagar beach in Chennai on Wednesday.

 

Two sailors from Kasargod district identified as Joman Joseph (23) and P C Krishnachandra (22) also on board the ill-fated ship. Joseph had been working in the ship since one-and-a-half-year while Krishnachandra had recently joined.

 

The five sailors went missing after a lifeboat they were using to leave the ship capsized. The death toll in the tragedy is two now.

 

Coast Guard helicopters had on Thursday rescued 15 trapped sailors including Joy Herman Corda, a resident of Kalathur in Udupi district, from the ship.  The initial rescue operations on the day of the cyclone were carried out by fishermen.

 

When the cyclone made its landfall, the ship's captain had sent out a distress call, but got no response. The Coast Guard and the Tamil Nadu government's Coastal Security Group did not come for rescue, citing gusty winds and bad weather.

 

A Coast Guard official said: "We do not monitor ships at ports, not even on a cyclone day. We rescue only when there is a call."

 

Chennai Port officials said the ship's captain had ignored instructions to leave for safe waters following the cyclone alert.

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Bhatkal, Mar 24: Two people, who arrived from Dubai at Mangaluru International Airport on March 21, were tested positive for coronavirus.

A 40-year-old man has been tested positive for the dreaded killer disease Covid-19 while 65-year-old man, who arrived on same day from Dubai, has also been tested positive for the virus. The person reportedly took train from Mangaluru to Bhatkal after arriving at Mangaluru International Airport.

Both of them hailed from Bhatkal and are currently hospitalised and their direct contacts are being traced by the authorities.

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April 18,2020

Ballari, Apr 18: Hosapete town in Ballari district of Karnataka gasped in disbelief as it turned out that 11 members of one single family are positive for the coronavirus.

The whole town has been declared a containment zone and is being surveilled 24X7.

The family includes seven members whose tests returned positive today, three who tested Covid-19 positive on March 30 and one other member subsequently.

The seven who tested positive today had been negative when they were earlier tested along with the others.

They have all now been shifted to isolation wards at the District Hospital in Ballari.

Including this family of 11, Ballari has 13 positive cases so far, with one case each reported from Ballari and Siraguppa towns.

Startled by this sudden upsurge from Hosapete, the district administration has set up 16 fever clinics to screen people and six COVID care centres to treat positive cases. There are two dedicated COVID hospitals, one at Ballari and another at Torangallu in Sandur.

A team of psychological counsellors have been put on duty to provide support to the patients at the isolation centres.

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Udupi, May 18: G Jagadeesh, Deputy Commissioner of Udupi today warned that criminal cases would be filed, if people under quarantine roam around, as they put the lives of others in risk, by coming out.

He said: "There are more than 6,000 people under quarantine in hotels, hostels, schools etc in different parts of the district. They include those who returned from other countries and other states.”

“We have allowed them to return to the district. Now I am receiving complaints that many of them are violating quarantine guidelines and venturing out. This is unacceptable.”

“As it is a risk to the whole society, severe action will be taken against the neglect and apathy of the persons under quarantine,” he said.

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