Hoskote: Fire breaks out in shop, man dies
Bengaluru: An 18-year-old young man died after a hardware shop caught fire in Pillagumpe Industrial Area in Hoskote, Bengaluru.
The deceased has been identified as Ravi Kumar, son of the shop owner.
The incident took place on Wednesday morning when the fire broke out in the shop after a short circuit.
The shop was run Shankaracharya, a native of Malur. It was business as usual on Wednesday when Shankaracharya, his son, Ravi Kumar Acharya, 18, and an employee of the shop, Nagaraju, 25, were attending to their duties.
All of a sudden there was a loud noise and immediately both Shankaracharya and Nagaraju ran out of the shop. “The shop has two portions. Ravi Kumar had gone inside one chamber of the shop and was unable to get out. The fire engulfed the shop very soon and he was trapped,” a police official said.
Fire and Emergency Services personnel rushed to the spot and doused the fire. However, they were unable to rescue Ravi Kumar, who died in the blaze.
The Nandagudi police have registered a case and are investigating.
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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.
