KPCC provides Rs 11 lakh relief fund to contractor Santosh Patil’s family
Belagavi: KPCC President D K Shivakumar on Tuesday handed over a relief fund of Rs 11 lakh to the family of contractor Santosh Patil who reportedly committed suicide alleging the burden of commission thrusted upon him by former minister Eshwarappa.
D K Shivakumar had earlier promised the deceased’s family of providing a relief fund of Rs 11 lakhs. Considering that the former minister visited the family in Badas, Belagavi earlier today and handed over the relief check, reports said.
Meanwhile, former minister Prakash Hukkeri has provided a relief Cheque of Rs 5 lakhs personally, it is learned.
Legislators such as Lakshmi Hebbalkar, Anjali Nimbalkar, Mahantesh S Koujalagi, MLC Channaraj Hattiholi, district president of Congress Vinay Navalagatti and others were present.
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5 schoolchildren among 7 killed in blast in southwest Pakistan
Islamabad (PTI): At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed on Friday in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, according to media reports.
The blast occurred at 8.35 am near a school at the Civil Hospital Chowk of the Mastung district of the province, Dawn newspaper reported.
“It appears that an IED (improvised explosive device) attached to a motorcycle was detonated near a police mobile,” Kalat Division Commissioner Naeem Bazai was quoted as saying in the report.
“So far, seven individuals have been killed, including five school students,” Bazai said. At least 22 people were injured in the attack.
Most of those injured were schoolchildren, Geo News reported, adding that they were shifted to a nearby hospital.
A police van and several auto-rickshaws were damaged in the explosion, according to the report.
An emergency was declared across all Quetta hospitals after the blast, the report said quoting the provincial health department spokesperson, adding that all doctors, pharmacists, staff nurses and other medical staff were summoned.
