Father-daughter duo injured as their car skids, topples on road in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: A father-daughter duo traveling in a car was injured as the vehicle toppled on the road since the driver lost control near the Kuntikan Junction in the city on Friday morning.
The driver of the car and his daughter, who was also traveling in the car, are learned to have sustained minor injuries in the accident, although their identities are yet to be ascertained.
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The duo was driving from Koolur towards the Karnataka Polytechnic (KPT) Junction. As they reached the Kuntikan Junction, the driver lost control over the car resulting in the vehicle skidding on the road and overturning, before ramming into the barricade in the middle of the stretch.
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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.
