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A leopard suspected to beryllium seven-year-old was deed by an unidentified conveyance connected Saturday nighttime erstwhile it was crossing the Salem-Coimbatore National Highways astatine Kaliyanur junction.
The carnal died connected the spot and Forest Department officials sent the carcass for autopsy by a squad from the Kurumbapatti Zoological Park. The carnal was buried later.
The villagers of Devannagoundanur adjacent Sankari claimed 10 months agone that they saw a leopard adjacent the wood successful the locality. The Forest Department installed CCTV cameras successful the locality, but the leopard was not recorded successful the cameras.
Life convict escapes from Salem GH
A 36-year-old beingness convict escaped from the Salem Government Hospital connected Saturday night. Mohammed Hussein of Adirampattinam in the Thanjavur district, who was serving beingness imprisonment astatine the Tiruchi Central Prison for a execution case, was shifted to Salem Central Prison past month. He was admitted to the Salem GH connected April 24 arsenic helium reportedly fell ill. On Saturday astir 9 p.m., helium went to the toilet and did not return. The situation unit broke the toilet doorway and recovered that helium had escaped done the windows successful the toilet room. The constabulary were alerted and portion checking the CCTV footage, they recovered the convict coming retired of the infirmary astir 10.15 p.m. The Government Hospital constabulary registered a lawsuit and are connected the lookout for the convict.
Woman falls from moving train, dies
Kalpana Chowdry (36), a autochthonal of Nepal, who was travelling successful an unreserved compartment successful the Pune - Kanyakumari Express connected Saturday night, fell from the bid and died.
She was reportedly adjacent the doorway of the compartment and fell down erstwhile the bid passed Bommidi successful Dharmapuri district. Her household saw her falling and stopped the train. The constabulary registered a lawsuit and are investigating.
Three arrested for execution successful Namakkal
Sridhar (65), a husbandman of Kattuvelampalayam adjacent Molasi, had a onshore quality with Velusamy of the aforesaid locality. On Saturday, a quarrel erupted betwixt him and Velusamy, his woman Kannaki, and lad Kesavaraj. During the quarrel, Kesavaraj allegedly attacked Sridhar with a sickle. He sustained injuries and died connected the mode to the hospital. The Molasi constabulary registered a lawsuit and arrested the trio.
Heavy rainfall lashes Salem district
In the 24 hours that ended astatine 8 a.m. connected Sunday, Salem territory received 189.10 mm of rainfall. Puludikkuttai received the highest magnitude of 48 mm rainfall, followed by 35 mm successful Yethapur, 22 mm each astatine Danishpet and Veeraganoor, 20.2 mm successful Yercaud, 12 mm successful Edappadi, 10 mm successful Thammampatti, 7 mm successful Kariyakovil, 3.4 mm successful Attur, 3 mm each astatine Nathakarai and Vazhapadi, 2 mm successful Collectorate and 1.5 mm successful Omalur.
