Boluvar : Car knocks down pedestrian
Puttur, June 10: A pedestrian died when a speeding car knocked him down while crossing the road at Boluvar in the town on Saturday night.
The deceased is identified as Prashanth Hegde (48) of Urlandi. When he was crossing the road near Bannur Raitha Seva Sahakari Sangha at Boluvar, the car knocked him down. Severely injured Hegde was admitted to a private hospital, but he was declared brought dead.
Prashanth Hegde was working as the supervisor at Mahammayi temple at Subramanya and he came to his village during holiday. Puttur traffic police registered a case.
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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.
