Mangaluru, Mar 25: A youth was was killed after being knocked down by a train near Thokkottu on the outskirts of the city on Friday.
The decease has been identified as Avil Roshan D'Souza (32), a resident of Kolya village near here.
It is learnt that the youth was walking on the tracks at Kapikad near Thokkottu when the tragedy took place.
A case has been registered. Authorities are likely quiz the motorman of the train to establish the sequence of events leading to the youth's death.
Bengaluru, Apr 16: The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday has identified eight districts from Karnataka as COVID-19 hotspots.
Districts that have reported a higher number of cases are classified as hotspots, the districts where cases have been reported as non-hotspots, and green zones where no cases have been reported.
Bangalore Urban, Mysuru, Belagavi, Dakshina Kannada, Bidar, Kalaburgi, Bagalokote and Dharwad have been identified as Covid-19 hotspots by Union Health Ministry, tweeted the state health department on Wednesday.
Mangaluru, July 13: With the confirmation of four more deaths related to novel coronavirus, the covid-19 death toll in Dakshina Kannada has mounted to 50.
In fact, the four fatalities had occurred on Saturday. Today the authorities concerned that they were tested positive for Covid-19.
The deceased include two septuagenarians, a sexagenarian, and a 53-year-old. All of them were male.
Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh revealed that their comorbidities were diabetes in ICU, pneumonia in ICU, hepatitis in ICU, severe acute respiratory infection and carcinoma of the lung respectively.
Malappuram (Kerala), Feb 19: children of a couple in a span of nine years has raised suspicion among police personnel here who have registered a case following a complaint after a three-month-old child of the family died on Tuesday and was buried.
Police exhumed the body, which was buried in the morning, and took it to the district hospital at Tirur for post-mortem.
The infant was the sixth child of the couple, police said.
"A case has been registered (for unnatural death) in the matter to verify the death beyond any suspicion raised by locals since five other children of the couple had died in the past nine years," a senior police official said.
The couple had three boys and three girls of which the third girl child lived till the age of four and the rest died before turning one.
"The post-mortem will take place today itself.We are collecting the medical records of the children who had passed away earlier.
We will identify the cause of death after analysing the records and discuss the matter with forensic doctors," Tirur Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) said.
However, relatives claimed that there was nothing suspicious in the death of the children and that doctors have said it was due to some genetic disease.
"The post-mortem of the third child was conducted and the doctors said the death was due to some genetic problems. They said they were helpless," a relative said, adding that the family was ready to face any probe.
According to the locals, the couple had claimed that the children have died due to epilepsy.
Sources said the baby was taken to a hospital but was dead prior to reaching the hospital early this morning.
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Whatever may be the reason, a precious life is lost. He might be sole bread earner for his family. May GOD show HIS mercy on his family to bear this loss.
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