ANF personnel dies of heart attack
Incident happened during combing operation against naxals
Sullia, June 16: An Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) personnel who had been to combing operation against suspected naxals died of cardiac arrest amidst the forest at Madappadi village in the Kilar Male reserve forest in Dakshina Kannada- Kodagu border on Saturday.
The personnel is identified as Rangaswamy (40) of Bhadravati. He was serving in Karkala ANF unit. His family was settled in Bengaluru. He is survived by wife and a daughter. Another daughter had died last year in an accident.
Four teams of ANF force and Anti-Naxal Squad (ANS) were jointly engaged in combing operation as there was news that suspected naxals visited a house at Hadikal in the taluk on Thursday night. Karkala and Bhagamandala unit ANF and ANS teams comprising 70 personnel started their combing operation from today morning.
When the personnel were combing at Kotegudde, just 6 km from the place where the suspected naxals visited, Rangaswamy collapsed due to heart attack at around 4 am. The ANF personnel conducted the first aid, but in vain. Later, the personnel carried the body of Rangaswamy from Mayilakote to the residence of Puttanna Gowda for almost 2 km amidst the forest. Later, his body was transported in the vehicle and brought to Sullia KVG hospital.
Suspected naxals have said to be visited the farm house of Jayaram HB of Hadikal in Madappadi village in the forest area. Later, combing operation was intensified. All the four teams were pressed into action in Kodagu-Dakshina Kannada border area like Kadamakallu, Sampaje, Hadikallu and Kotegudde. Rangaswamy was in the team which has gone to Kotegudde area.
As it was a thick forest and there was leech menace, the ANF personnel found it difficult to carry the body down the hill. Knowing the incident, hundreds of people gathered at Madappadi village.
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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.
