Gangavati, May 20: Both BJP and JDS-Congress workers engaged in a clash during the latter’s celebration of inviting HD Kumaraswamy to form the government after the resignation of Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. In this clash, two workers sustained injuries.

After their bike rally, the JDS-Congress workers were celebrating at Valmiki Circle. At this time, some people said to be the workers of BJP, attacked the JDS-Congress workers who were in celebration mood. In the incident, two persons Rajaavali and Mohammad Yusuf were injured and they were admitted to Gangavati government hospital.

The JDS-Congress workers took out their bike rally in CBS Circle, Gandhi Circle, Sri Krishna Devaraya Circle and Valmiki Circle, shouting slogans. At this time, they confronted the BJP workers and engaged in verbal duals which led to the skirmish. At this time, some of them have tried to set the motor bikes ablaze. But the police took the situation under control. Though the situation is under control, police have taken security measures to maintain law and order situation.

As the tension prevailed in the town, police have closed all business establishments and deployed police personnel in sensitive areas like Killa Area, Mahaveer Circle, Valmiki Circle, Ambedkar Circle, Bannigida camp and other places. Along with this, street lights were switched off. SP Anoop Shetty camped in the town. Police sources said that 40 persons were booked in related to the incident.  

 

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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.