Indian man drowns during Eid break in UAE
Dubai, Jun 17: A 25-year-old Indian man has drowned off a popular beach in the UAE as he went for a "regular swim" with his friends, a media report said Monday.
Anandhu Janardanan, who is from Kerala, drowned in Umm Al Quwain city during the Eid-ul-Fitr break in the country.
Janardanan was swimming "within the safe limits when he encountered rough waves that dragged him down", the Khaleej Times reported.
His friend George Aloysius said a high wave suddenly swept Janardanan away.
"We tried hard to find him, but we couldn't and, later, his body was washed ashore," Aloysius said.
The central operations room of the Umm Al Quwain (UAQ) Police dispatched paramedics and rescue teams to the site.
"They tried to resuscitate Janardanan and rushed him to the hospital, but he was declared dead on arrival," the report said.
As an expat who earned a monthly salary of Dirham 2,000 (Rs 38,000), Janardanan supported his elderly father and two siblings, it said.
His body is expected to be repatriated on Monday.
On Saturday, a 40-year-old man from Bengaluru drowned after suffering a cardiac arrest at the Jumeirah beach in the UAE during an outing with his family.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
