Bijapur, Jun 24: Four persons were killed on the spot when their four-wheeler collided with an oncoming lorry near Horti on NH-13 in the wee hours of Sunday.
The deceased are identified as Anand Shnataiah Hiremath (35), Mallikarjun Tammanna Kalasad (36), Subhash Veerappa Karabantanal (43) and Sunil Badarinarayan Suresh Putani (35), the residents of Bijapur city. They were on their way to Shirdi when the accident took place. Horti police are investigating the case.
Panaji, Feb 23: A MiG-29K aircraft crashed off Goa during a routine training sortie on Sunday morning, the Indian Navy said in a statement.
"The pilot ejected safely and has been recovered. An enquiry into the incident has been ordered," the statement said.
On November 16, a MiG-29K trainer flight had crashed after a bird hit, soon after it took off the Dabolim International airport, which functions out of the Indian Navy base INS Hansa.
Both pilots had managed to safely eject themselves to safety after both the engines of their jet failed.
According to data tabled in the recent budget session of the Goa Assembly, every ten days, at least one aircraft landing or taking off at Goa's Dabolim international airport faces dangers involving birds or stray dogs near the runway.
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.
Panipat, Mar 3: A 22-year-old man was charred to death after he came in contact with a live electricity wire while posing for a TikTok video near the Matlaudha railway station here, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Monday evening when Vikas, a resident of Dharamgarh village, climbed a pole over which the wire was passing and posed for the video, police said.
His three friends were standing below when the accident took place.
Vikas came in contact with the wire carrying 25,000 volts current and was burnt, police said.
Police have sent the body for a post-mortem and started investigation into the matter.
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