Byndoor: MESCOM lineman electrocuted while working on power transformer
Byndoor: In a tragic incident, a Mangalore Electricity Supply Company lineman lost his life after he was electrocuted while repairing a transformer near Taggarse village in Heggeri on Monday.
The deceased has been identified as Saleem (38), a resident of Mundgod in Uttara Kannada district. Saleem has been serving the MESCOM Byndoor for the past 8 years.
The incident reportedly took place when Saleem was repairing the electrical connection near the power transformer in Heggeri when he was electrocuted. He was seriously injured and died on the way to the hospital.
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Saleem is survived by his wife and their two-month-old child.
A case in connection with the incident has been registered at the Byndoor Police Station.
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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.
