Ludhiana: The district recorded the highest single-day toll as well as the case count on Sunday, when Covid-19 claimed 22 lives and left 1,729 infected. The second highest case count was logged on May 1, when 1,600 people had tested positive.
As per the health department bulletin, 32 deaths were reported in Ludhiana on the day. Of them, 22 patients were of Ludhiana, two of Mohali, and one each of Fatehgarh Sahib, Moga, Bathinda, Ropar Sangrur, Chandigarh, Haryana and Delhi.
The district casualties included a 33-year-old man of Haibowal Kalan, a 45-year-old woman of Hussainpura, a 62-year-old woman of Karnail Singh Nagar, a 28-year-old man of Model Town, a 41-year-old man of Shimlapuri, a 29-year-old woman of Kailash Nagar, a 59-year-old woman of Millerganj, a 72-year-old man of Daresi Road, a 55-year-old woman of Dandi Swami Road, a 58-year-old woman of Mall Enclave, and a 55-year-old woman of Prem Nagar. The other deaths are of a 42-year-old woman of Guru Gobind Singh Nagar, a 76-
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Ludhiana: Two days after a man was found murdered at a vacant plot in Jugiyana village, Sahnewal, the police on Tuesday claimed to have solved the case with the arrest of two.
On February 28 afternoon, children playing in the area had raised the alarm on noticing the body, which had a piece of cloth tied around its neck and a disfigured face.
After identifying the body as that of Shanti Pandey, 27, a resident of Guru Gobind Singh Nagar, Shimlapuri, the police zeroed in on his two friends Pawan Thakur, of the same locality, and Roshan Kumar of Daba. They were arrested after they spilled the beans during interrogation.