Satna (Madhya Pradesh), April 28: A groom and five from his wedding party heading to a marriage were killed after their car collided head-on with a truck here, police said on Saturday.


Three others were also critically injured as the car was crushed under the truck after both vehicles rolled into a gorge following the collision on the Maihar-Amarpatan route near the Naroda village late on Friday.

Police Officer Arvind Tiwari told IANS that the groom was identified as Brajmohan Koley from Amrahi, who had set off for Amelia for his marriage.

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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.