Byndoor Police Station, CPI office sealed down as two staffers test positive for COVID-19
Byndoor: The Byndoor police station as well as the office of the Circle Inspector on the same premises have been sealed down as two police staff tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus here on Monday.
A female staff member tested positive for the virus on June 21 while another staff tested positive on June 22. Since both the staff members were computer operators, they were assigned indoor work. As a result, the two had visited the office of the circle inspector and the police station.
The offices have temporarily been shifted to the old building of the circle inspector's office.
Also, 30 staff members, including the sub-inspector, and the circle inspector have been put under home quarantine following the development.
The staff in all police stations have been working in three groups with 10 days of external work, 10 days of indoor work, and 10 days of rest in a month each. There are about eight staff members of one such group in the Byndoor police station who would not have come into contact with an infected person in the last 18 days. Two of the staff members are aged above 50 years. The other six people will now work from the temporary office, said Kundapur Assistant Superintendent of Police Hariram Shankar.
The station will be sanitized on Monday night and two to three times on Tuesday and used for work about 48 hours later. All those who had come into contact with the infected staff members will be made to undergo tests for infection, said the officer.
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Four dead in highway pile-up in Karnataka
Ballari (Karnataka) (PTI): At least four people are feared dead and some others were injured in a pile-up involving a bus, a garlic-laden lorry, a car and multiple two-wheelers near Danapur in Hospet taluk of Vijayanagara district on National Highway 50 on Saturday morning, police said.
According to police sources, the accident began as a minor collision but escalated when the speeding lorry rammed into a bike and subsequently crashed into a bus and a car before overturning.
The lorry fell onto the car and dragged it for nearly 100 metres after the impact, police said.
Preliminary inquiry suggests the driver was transporting garlic towards Chitradurga and was driving at high speed, leading to loss of control and a chain collision.
“The four occupants of the car are feared to have died on the spot after the lorry toppled onto the vehicle,” police sources said, adding that some people sustained injuries, some of them serious.
Rescue operations were underway to clear the overturned vehicle and retrieve those trapped.
The injured have been shifted to government hospitals in Hospet and Koppal for treatment, they added.
Vehicular movement on National Highway 50 was severely affected, with traffic piling up for several kilometres as locals gathered at the accident site and emergency teams intensified relief efforts.
