Assailants open fire during robbery attempt at Bengaluru jewellery, two injured
BENGALURU: Unidentified assailants barged into a jewellery shop in the city's Kodigehalli area on Thursday and opened fire from a country-made pistol when the owner and employees resisted the robbery attempt, police said.The robbers came on two motorcycles and fired three rounds leaving two people injured before fleeing the scene, police said, adding, they left behind the weapon.
The incident was caught on CCTV cameras. Forensic experts inspected the spot.
Bengaluru Police Commissioner, B Dayananda said the small shop is located in a "very interior area."
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"Some four persons have come and tried to rob. When the shop owner and employees resisted, two-three rounds were fired by them (assailants). Two people were injured and they have been shifted to hospital. All efforts are being made to nab the culprits," he said.
CCTV footage in and around the shop are being scanned to identify the assailants and ascertain the sequence of events, police said, adding, further investigation is underway.
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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.
