The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested five more persons in connection with the blast at a fireworks manufacturing unit in Kukkedi village of Belthangady taluk. Three persons died in the incident.
The Steel City police on Tuesday arrested three people who were part of a mob that attacked two persons suspected of stealing an LPG cylinder and killed one of them in Sidhgora on Monday.
As many as 35 history-sheeters involved in Cannabis and drugs smuggling were arrested by the Visakhapatnam police, using 'Anti-Gunda Squad' and 'Anti Narcotic Squad', police said on Saturday.