Shira: Terrible road accident; 8 killed, 16 injured
Tumkur: At least eight persons were killed and 16 others injured when a private bus they were traveling in rammed into a lorry that was parked at the roadside on the highway near Shira on last night.
The deceased have been identified as residents of Pattanayakanahalli’s Savita Somashekar (21), Anusha (7), Ratnamma Kumar (39), Sumalata Lingaraju (21), Girijamma Devaraju (55), Shira Jyothinagar’s Shankar Ishwarappa (38) and Ashwath Narayana (40). Bhutanna, Rangappa, Shanthamma, Bharathi, Yashodhara, Annapoorneshwari, Jyothi, Veerabhadraya, Nanjamma, Padmamma, Kanchamma, Ajayya, Thippeswamy, Nagmani, Ranganatha, and Somashekhar injured in the incident and have been admitted to Tumkur district hospital.
All the passengers traveled to Chowdeshwari Temple in Sigandhoor by a private bus belonging to a travels on May 19. The tragedy occurred on Sunday night when the travelers were returning to their hometown after visiting the temple. The incident happened when the bus was about to reach Shira.
“Driver of the private bus lost the control over the vehicle, following which the bus collided with a truck that was parked near Jai Hind hotel on the left side of the highway. While three persons succumbed to injuries on the spot, five others breathed their last in the hospital, police 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.
