Kuttar: Couple and two children die after house wall collapses
Mangaluru: In a tragic incident, a couple and their two children died after the wall of a compound collapsed onto their house in Madani Nagar of Munnoor village. The incident occurred under the Ullal police station limits and was reported on Wednesday.
The deceased have been identified as Yasir (45), his wife Mariamma (40), and their children Riana and Rifana.
The incident occured when the enclosure wall of Abu Bakr's house collapsed, causing it to fall onto Yasir's house. Locals managed to pull out the bodies of three individuals from the ruins. The operation is ongoing to recover the body of one of the children.
The Deputy Commissioner visited the site and announced compensation of Rs. 5 lakh each.
Further details are awaited.
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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.
