Masked robbers break into PWD contractor’s house near M'luru; tie up residents, steal money, jewelry
Mangaluru: A group of nine people broke into and burgled a farmhouse owned by PWD contractor Padmanabha Kotian at Ulaibettu on the outskirts of Mangaluru city on Friday night, after assaulting Kotian and his family members.
Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal has said that the robbers who were under masks entered the farmhouse and, threatening Kotian with a knife, demanded money from him. The robbers ransacked the house after tying up Kotian and his family members using bed-sheets, with Kotian’s hand being injured in the scuffle, officer added.
The robbers stole money and jewelry that was in the farmhouse. They also took Kotian’s vehicle that had been parked in the front yard, but left it at a short distance away from the house before escaping from the place, said the Commissioner.
A case has been registered at the Mangalore Rural Police Station and the officers are investigating to get further information about the group that broke into the contractor’s farmhouse, the senior officer has said.
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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.
