Three Cops including DySp dead in road accident
Bagalkot, May 10: Three policemen including Bengaluru CID DySp died in a gruesome accident that took place on Bagalkot-Ilakallu road in Bagalkot.
Bengaluru CID DySP Baalegowda (55), CID sub inspector K.H Shivaswami (55) and driver Venugopal (25) are the deceased cops.
The trio was travelling to Bagalkot from Bengaluru on election duty when the incident took place at around 12.30am.
The lorry moving from Bagalkot collided with the police jeep near Kudalasangama cross on Bagalkot-Ilakallu road. The seriously injured cops died on the spot.
DySP Baalegowda was a resident of Kottigepalya in Bengaluru. Recently he was transferred after promotion as CID DySP. Earlier he had served as circle inspector in Tumkur and Kunigal.
CPI K.H Shivaswami was a resident of Chamarajanagar and driver was from Bengaluru, it is learnt.
They were deployed on election duty at Bagalkot. The trio left Bengaluru in a jeep at around 8pm.. After having dinner in a hotel in Kora police station limit on national highway 48 they had continued their journey towards Bagalkot.
Bagalkot district superintendent of police Vamshikrishna and DySP Girisha and other officers visited the spot and inspected.
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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.
