Kozhikode, Jun 26: A man, who had returned from Bahrain on Thursday and has been under quarantine at his house in Villyapallai near here, has been stabbed on his arm by an unidentified person.
Police sources said the assailant, with a masked face, had ransacked the man's house by break-opening the door at midnight lat night and stabbed Lijeesh on his arm and fled from the scene.
The nearby residents took Lijeesh to a nearby hospital and was put back on quarantine.
Khammam, Jun 29: In an outrageous incident, some youths beat up a monkey and strung it up on a tree to death while also releasing dogs to attack it in Ammapalem village in Telangana's Khammam district.
A video of the heinous incident of animal cruelty has surfaced on social media, in which the monkey is seen hanging by a rope from a tree, desperately flailing its limbs while a couple of dogs attempt to pounce on and torment the hapless simian. After a while, several men are seen in the video approaching the animal with long sticks.
Forest officials have charged one villager Venkateshwar Rao under Wildlife Protection Act along with the other accused and arrested them. They were released on bail on Saturday and are set to be summoned for questioning by forest officials.
Rao had spotted the monkey, which had entered his residence apparently in search of food and beat it with a stick and hung it from a tree with the help of his friend.
In the video of the incident, Rao could also be seen instructing his pet dogs to bite the monkey, which was fighting for its life.
Visakhapatnam, Jun 30: Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said.
The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.
The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.
The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.
District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.
The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.
The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.
Mandya, Jun 14: In a tragic incident, a woman and her two children were drowned in a pond at Beeranahalli village in Nagamangala taluk of this district on Sunday.
Police said that the deceased have been identified as Geeta (40), and her two children Savita(19) and Soumya(14).
Savaitha is a degree student while Soumya was studying in 9th standard. The trio drowned in a pond where they had gone to wash their cows. The locals rushed to the spot and tried to rescue them but could not save.
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