Bantwal: Contact with electric wire while installing tent; One dead, four injured
Bantwal: A youngster from Bihar lost his life, and four others were injured on Saturday afternoon when an iron rod they were using to install a tent came into contact with an electric wire in a private area at Kadabettu in Kadeshwalya village.
Kundan Kumar Mandal (18) from Bihar lost his life, while Prasanna from Kadeshwalya village, Bablu from Jharkhand, and Pradeep and Rohit from West Bengal sustained injuries. The injured are currently being treated at a hospital in Mangaluru.
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The deceased's body has been kept at Bantwal Taluk Hospital.
Bantwal Rural Police Station Inspector Sivakumar, SHO Harish, and Karibasappa are conducting an investigation at the incident spot.
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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.
