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Bantwal: 10-yr-old school boy drown in quarry pit while playing

coastaldigest.com news network
July 22, 2017

Mangaluru, Jul 22: A 10-year-old boy on Saturday drowned in a stone-quarry pit at a remote village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district.

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The police have identified the victim as Irfan (10), one of the six children of Husain and Zeenath couple from Kanchinadka Padavu near Ira village in Bantwal.

The incident took place when the boy was playing near the quarry-pit in his village along with his friends after returning from the school. His parents had been to a doctor’s clinic as they were suffering from fever.

The quarry pit where the tragedy took place is a prohibited area. Fences have also been erected around the pit. However, the children failed to foresee the danger while playing and one among them slipped into the pit.

Bantwal tahsildar Purandara Hegde, revenue inspector Rama Katipalla among others visited the spot. Bantwal rural police have registered a case.

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There are several stone-quarry pits around the waste processing plant in Kanchinadka Padavu. Most of the pits were caused by the illegal quarrying in the past. In 2011, then Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, Subodh Yadavu, had ordered to close the dangerous pits.

However, the officials concerned have just erected fences around the pits instead of closing them. During rainy season, these pits will turn into death pits.

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PRABHAKAR PUND…
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Monday, 24 Jul 2017

we pray for your speedy recovery sir.

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March 29,2020

Kannur, Mar 29: A non-resident Keralite (NRK)

under home quarantine here since he returned from Sharjah recently died on Sunday, officials said.

According to health authorities, Abdul Khader (65), a resident of Kannariparamba, was kept under home quarantine after he returned from abroad on March 21.

Police said the man had no symptoms of coronavirus but was under isolation as per Covid-19 protocol for persons returning from abroad and other states.

"The relatives of the deceased took him to hospital after seeing him unconscious in his room. However he died before reaching the hospital," police said.

Quoting medical college authorities, the Mayyil police said he died of cardiac arrest.

However, the health officials said they will test his blood sample to ascertain whether he was affected with novel coronavirus.

The body has been kept at the Kannur medical college and will be handed over to his kin only if the result of his blood test is negative, sources said.

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January 25,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 25: Hotelier Samtappa reportedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Kadaba taluk in the district on police said on Saturday.

The deceased was running a hotel named Hotel Samtappa here.

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May 28,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, May 28: Coastal Karnataka witnessed further spike in covid-19 cases today with 27 people testing positive for coronavirus in Udupi and six in Dakshina Kannada. 

Among 27 coronavirus patients in Udupi 18 are males and 9 females. Among them 24 have come from Maharashtra, two from Telangana and one from Kerala. All of them were under quarantine.

As many as 147 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been reported so far in the district, including a death. Three have recovered, and 143 are active.

In Dakshina Kannada, 2 females aged 18 and 62, and four males aged 25, 36, 50 and 61, are the ones to be tested positive. All the six persons to test positive are Maharashtra returnees.

With this, the number of cases in DK has increased to 87, out of which 51 are currently active. As many as 29 persons have recovered and been discharged, and seven deaths have occurred so far.

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