Four died, seven injured in road accident while going for voting
Beluru, May 12: Four persons were died and seven others injured seriously when their auto in which they were going to cast their votes at Chilkuru polling station, hit by a lorry at Ramenahalli in the taluk on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Sharadamma (70), Kamalamma (65) and Jayalakshmi (45) who died on the spot, while Lakshme Gowda (65) breathed his last on the way to hospital. All of them were going in an auto to cast their votes at 10 am. But a speeding lorry rammed the auto killing the four and injuring seven. Injured were admitted to Hassan and Beluru government hospitals. Beluru police CPI Yogish and PSI Sharath rushed to the spot and conducting an investigation.
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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.
