MUMBAI- An Indian navy surveillance aircraft crashed off Goa with two officers on-board missing on Tuesday night.
Rescue operations were underway after a Dornier aircraft plunged into the sea, some 25 nautical miles off Goa, around 10:00 pm on Tuesday.
“Last evening a navy Dornier during a routine training sortie off Goa ditched into sea,” a navy statement said early on Wednesday.
“One survivor rescued. Full scale search and rescue operation launched to locate two more officers (one pilot and one observer),” it added.
It is the latest in a series of deadly disasters to hit the navy, and comes just months after a naval ship sank off the southeastern coast of India leaving one worker dead and four others missing.
A fire aboard a nuclear submarine killed two officers off the Mumbai coast last February which led to the immediate resignation of the navy chief.
18 sailors were also killed in August 2013 when INS Sindhurakshak burst into flames in Mumbai harbour.
MORNING MAIL CORRESPONDENT
Ahmedabad, March 20: In a bizarre incident, some goats in Kheralu
town of Mehsana district fell unconscious after they consumed liquor
that had accumulated in an open plot after police there destroyed
liquor bottles seized in raids.
According to news report the goats of cattle-rearer, Ramesh Patni, fell unconscious after they consumed liquor, bottles of which were destroyed in an open farm on Tuesday last by police.
Kheralu police, sub-divisional magistrate and other high-ranking officials were present there to monitor the disposal procedure but some amount of liquor must have accumulated in small puddles across the farm.
The police had crushed the liquor-bottles by using a road-roller and disposed them.
Patni said the goats consumed the liquor after finding it “tasty” and then fainted. He said he was bemused on finding his some goats “tipsy”. The goats regained some consciousness after 12-14 hours of the incident,
he added.
Patni fed them some butter-milk to ease the effect of alcohol and tied them in his cattle-shed so that they could not create ruckus.
The Centre had lauded the increase in the number of surrenders by Maoists in Chattisgarh and termed it a major achievement but recent intelligence reports have revealed that several of them were not genuine.
Sources said the Intelligence Bureau (IB) is unhappy with the manner in which the surrenders are taking place and has discussed the same with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the force entrusted with the mandate of combating Maoist insurgency. The matter has also been taken up with the state authorities.
Sources said the IB has found that several incidents of surrenders were fake. “In many cases, it has been noticed that those who surrendered were either not Maoists or were sympathisers a long time ago,” said an official.
Officials said the Maoists have also started questioning the authenticity of these surrenders. It is believed that getting them (Maoists) to surrender hurts them more than any anti-Maoist operation and arrest, as it demoralises the top leadership and the cadres. “We need to be careful about this. If these are not real surrenders, it can backfire,” the official added.
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