Three die in separate incidents

September 5, 2012

Mangalore, September 5: Three people died in three separate tragic incidents on Tuesday in different places in Dakshina Kannada.

Sinan (18), who had sustained injuries in a road accident, breathed his last at a private hospital. He and two others identified as Safwan (20) and Sattar (18) were seriously injured when the car they were travelling in toppled on Monday night near Bannur in Puttur.

The incident occurred when the injured, who were from Kanakamajalu in Sullia, were travelling in a Ritz. They were rushed to a private hospital in Puttur, and later shifted to one in Mangalore. Sinan did not respond to the treatment and succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.

In another incident, a youth drowned while swimming in a lake on Tuesday at a village called Mura in Kodippadi of Puttur. He has been identified as Ibrahim (20). A native of Suntikoppa (near Madikeri), he had been visiting his relative Puttumonu in Mura when the incident occurred.

In an unrelated case, a pedestrian met with his death when he was rammed by an unknown vehicle near a petrol bunk on National Highway 66 in Kaup. His body was found at around 6 am on Tuesday morning.

The victim has been identified as Mohammed Iqbal (24) of Moolur. A case has been registered on the matter at Kaup Police station.

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The team — shrimp expert Dr S Prakash, PhD scholar K Kunjulakshmi, and Mangaluru-based researcher Maclean Antony Santos — combined field surveys, ecological assessments and DNA analysis to identify the elusive species. Their findings, published in Zootaxa, resolve decades of taxonomic confusion stemming from a 1951 report that misidentified the species as Atyopsis moluccensis without strong evidence.

The shrimp has now been confirmed at two locations: the Mulki–Pavanje estuary near Mangaluru and the Kuakhai River in Bhubaneswar. Historical specimens from the Andaman Islands, previously labelled as A. moluccensis, were also found to be misidentified and actually belong to A. spinipes.

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