Kasaragod: Body of businessman found on Chembirika beach, suicide suspected
Kasaragod: The dead body of a 35-year-old businessman, Ajesh Palakkal, who had been suspected to have committed suicide by jumping into River Chandragiri on Thursday evening, was found on the beach at Chembirika in Kasaragod on Friday morning.
Palakkal was a resident of Ravaneshwar in Kasaragod and owned the company Palakkal Traders in Kalarikkal.
On Thursday, Palakkal reportedly came to the banks of River Chandragiri on his scooter at around 3 pm and, leaving his scooter and mobile phone on the banks, jumped into the river. Earlier in the day, however, the businessman is learned to have messaged his friend on the mobile phone, informing his friend that he would be committing suicide.
Police officials, fire brigade staff members and the locals, who were informed of Palakkal’s decision to kill himself, searched for his body but failed to find it as the river was in spate on Thursday.
On Friday morning, the businessman’s body was found on the Chembirika beach.
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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.
