Udupi: The District Medical Officer has said that a third case of Covid-19 was found among the students who appeared for the SSLC examination recently.

The new case is of a student who has already appeared for three examinations. On Tuesday night, however, her Corona test returned as positive. The student, therefore, will not appear for the remaining papers, said the officer.

She had appeared for the examination at the Byndoor centre. Since she was seriously ill, she was made to undergo the Corona test on June 30. The source of infection, however, is not yet known, said the officer.

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Bengaluru: Three people were killed when they were run over by a train near Byappanahalli railway station, police said on Thursday.

According to the police, the three persons who were on the track got run over by the Kannur Express, resulting in their instantaneous death.

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Two of them have been identified as Shashi Kumar and Lokesh from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, but the identity of the third victim could not be ascertained immediately, police said.

Lokesh was a cab driver and Shashi Kumar had recently come to the city in search of a livelihood.

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