Mandya: A car traveling on a bridge near Avverahalli in Pandavapura taluk of the district on Tuesday morning fell into a waterless canal as the driver lost control over the car, with the accident resulting in the death of two youth traveling in the car.
The deceased youth are identified as 18-year-old Nandish and 20-year-old Yogananda, who were residents of Byadarahalli in Pandavapura taluk.
A case has been registered at the Pandavapura Police Station and investigation is going on.
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The canal near Avverahalli has been a site for several such accidents earlier too, some of which were fatal, said the locals. Although the local legislators were requested repeatedly over the years to get a barrier constructed around the canal, the villagers' appeals have failed to draw a positive response from the MLAs, they added.
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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.