Over 1,500 cops infected, 14 die due to COVID in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: More than 1,500 police officers and personnel in Bengaluru were infected by the coronavirus while 14 died of the infection, Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant said on Thursday.
"As on date 1501 from Bengaluru City Police have got affected by the coronavirus. Unfortunately, 14 of them expired due to this disease," the city police chief said during a webinar on 'Reboot Namma Bengaluru' organised by the 'Namma Bengaluru Foundation,' a not-for-profit organisation.
Pant said those who contracted the disease are only one per cent of the total work force.
Most of the infected policemen have recovered and 1,100 have resumed their duty, he added.
The city police chief also pointed out that many of the men in khaki came forward to donate their blood plasma to help others recover.
He also pointed out that the police were the first to respond to the migrant labourers' issue during the lockdown by opening kitchens at every police station to serve free food to them.
While the migrant labourers created ruckus elsewhere in the country, Bengaluru by and large remained calm due to the good policing, Pant said.
He appreciated his predecessor Bhaskar Rao for tackling the issue in an effective and human way.
Pant also hailed the Residents Welfare Associations, NGOs, citizen groups and people in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic stating that they ensured the strict implementation of the lockdown norms to contain the spread of the disease.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
