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Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (RD)
Udupi, May 1: The city fire brigade personnel have confirmed on Wednesday April 30, that an unidentified object which was found on the sea shore of Mattu, was actually a 3-foot-long fire extinguisher presumed to be dismantled from some foreign vessel.
City fire brigade officer Shivappa Gowda, after thorough examination of the object clarified that it was not an explosive. It was a portable fire extinguisher with a capacity to carry four and half kilograms of carbon dioxide which and usually installed in the deep sea vessels to combat any fire break-up along the journey. Since it was empty it floated in the sea and reached the sea shore.
“If the portable fire extinguisher was filled with carbon dioxide, there would not have been any possibility to reach the shore as it would be floating in deep sea. Besides, any parts related to missiles or explosives are generally manufactured using fiber. But heavy metals are used to manufacture fire extinguishers since it carries liquid gases”, clarified Shivappa Gowda.
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