MESCOM lineman electrocuted during repair work in Sullia
Sullia: A MESCOM lineman was electrocuted while working on an electric pole at Parla near Alekkadi on Monday.
Prakash (29), son of Krishnappa Gowda from Beltangady taluk, was electrocuted while carrying out repair work on the power line under the Mescom Panja section in Parla, Murulya village.
Prakash, who was working on the pole, screamed for help, and when fellow workers arrived, they found him stuck to the pole. He was unconscious and was rushed to Puttur hospital, where he was declared dead.
A case has been registered at the Bellare Police Station in this regard.
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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.
