Shillong: Five persons, including two siblings, died due to suffocation from toxic gases inside a well at a private construction site in the Lapalang area of Shillong on Friday evening, police informed on Saturday.The victims included two brothers who tried to rescue workers who were trapped inside the flooded well.East Khasi Hills SP Vivek Syiem…
Bhubaneswar: Two workers died at BJB Nagar in the city while trying to open the scaffolding of an under-construction septic tank on Saturday.The incident took place around 2.30 pm. “The workers, upon entering the tank, felt suffocated and due to the shortage of oxygen, they became unconscious,” DCP Jagmohan Meena said quoting preliminary investigation.“Police and…
T’puram: A 44-year-old lawyer who went missing while bathing in Neyyar River behind Sree Krishna Temple at Neyyattinkara on Friday was found dead on Saturday after an extensive search operation by fire and rescue services personnel.The deceased was identified as Abhilash Krishnachandran. According to police, Abhilash had gone to the river for a bath on…
Thiruvananthapuram: A youth was killed and two of his friends were seriously injured after the two-wheeler they were travelling on crashed into a road divider on National Highway 66 near Navaikulam in the early hours of Friday.The deceased was identified as Arun Krishna, 20, alias Akkudu, of Vadasserikonam. He was the only son of Babu…
T’puram: A 19-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide at Vettoor near Varkala, barely two months after her marriage. The deceased was identified as Naziya, daughter of Noushad and Zaheera of Varkala.According to police, Naziya was found hanging in her bedroom at her house on Wednesday evening. Family members immediately rushed her to a private hospital…
Daltonganj: A 25-year-old tourist from Garhwa district drowned in the Sugga Bandh waterfall under the Bareysanr range of the Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Latehar district, officials said on Monday.The deceased was identified as Ayush Tiwary, a technocrat posted outside Jharkhand who was working from home for the past several weeks, forester (in-charge) Saket Pandey…
T’puram: A 43-year-old man was found dead in Karamana River near Kundamankadavu on Sunday morning after an intensive search by a fire and rescue services (FRS) scuba diving team.According to officials, Vattiyoorkavu police received information around 6.30am that a person had entered the river at Arattukadavu section in Valiyavila ward of Thiruvananthapuram corporation. Based on…
T’puram: A 31-year-old man, who had been missing since Monday, was found dead in a panchayat well near his wife’s house at Killi on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Arun Kumar alias Aneesh of Kattakada. According to police, Aneesh had gone missing around 11.30pm on Monday from his wife’s residence.Police collected CCTV footage from the…
Rourkela: Body of a 21-year-old woman, who went missing from her village in Deogarh district on Tuesday, was recovered from a pond in the village on Wednesday. Deogarh police, after registering an unnatural death case, are probing the case.The deceased has been identified as Dipali Pradhan, 21, a resident of Kalkat village under Deogarh police…
Ponda: Two 17-year-old cousins drowned at Collem on Sunday while swimming in a river at Tambdimol, barely eight days after four youngsters lost their lives in a similar incident in the village.The victims were identified as Shivlingappa Manjunath Dandin, a resident of Gandhinagar, Collem, and Sagar Basavraj Dandin of Bagalkot, Karnataka. Both had recently cleared…
