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WORLD NEWS Saturday 23 May 2020

Pakistan jet with 98 aboard crashes in crowded neighborhood

By ADIL JAWAD health department, revis-
Associated Press ing an earlier statement
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) that three were alive.
— A jetliner carrying 98 Local TV stations showed
people crashed Friday in video of a man on a
a crowded neighborhood stretcher they identified as
near the airport in Paki- Zafar Masood, the head
stan's port city of Karachi of the Bank of Punjab.
after an apparent engine Malik later confirmed that
failure during landing. Of- Masood survived the crash.
ficials said there were two At least three people on
survivors from the plane but the ground were injured.
also found at least 57 bod- Malik announced an in-
ies in the wreckage. vestigation into the crash,
It was unknown how many adding that the aircraft
people on the ground were was in good working order.
hurt as the Pakistan Interna- Pakistan had resumed do-
tional Airlines jet, an Airbus mestic flights earlier this
A320, plowed into an alley week ahead of Eid-al Fitr,
and destroyed at least five which marks the end of
houses. the holy month of Rama-
The pilot was heard trans- dan. Pakistan has been in
mitting a mayday to the a countrywide lockdown
tower shortly before the Volunteers look for survivors of a plane that crashed in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, May since mid-March because
crash of Flight 8303, which 22, 2020. Associated Press of the coronavirus, and the
was flying from Lahore to airline has been using so-
Karachi and carrying many port in the poor and con- the crash site. three days. cial distancing guidelines
traveling for the Muslim hol- gested residential area As darkness fell, crews Pakistan's civil aviation au- on its flights by leaving ev-
iday of Eid al-Fitr. known as Model Colony worked under floodlights, thority said the plane had ery other seat vacant.
Video on social media ap- between houses that were and a portable morgue 91 passengers and a crew Southern Sindh province, of
peared to show the jet fly- smashed by its wings. Po- was set up. The Sindh pro- of seven. The A320 can which Karachi is the capi-
ing low with flames shoot- lice in protective masks vincial health department carry up to 180 passengers, tal, is the epicenter of the
ing from one of its engines. struggled to clear away said it had recovered 57 depending on how its cab- virus infections in Pakistan.
The plane went down crowds amid the smoke bodies, while PIA chairman in is configured. The province has nearly
about 2:39 p.m. northeast and dust so ambulances Arshad Malik said finding all At least two people aboard 20,000 of the country's
of Jinnah International Air- and firetrucks could reach the dead could take two to survived, according to the more than 50,000 cases.q

Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million children

LONDON (AP) — The coro- programs from the CO- low cargo and emergency
navirus pandemic is in- VID-19 pandemic threat- transport.
terrupting immunization ens to unwind decades of Officials also noted that 46
against diseases including progress against vaccine- campaigns to vaccinate
measles, polio and cholera preventable diseases like children against polio have
that could put the lives of measles," said WHO di- been suspended in 38
nearly 80 million children rector-general Tedros Ad- countries, mostly in Africa,
under the age of 1 at risk, hanom Ghebreyesus in a as a result of the corona-
according to a new analy- statement. The report was virus pandemic. Measles
sis from the World Health also produced by UNICEF, campaigns have been sus-
Organization and partners. the Sabin Vaccine Institute pended in 27 countries.
In a new report issued and GAVI. Experts say children need
on Friday, health officials UNICEF reported a sig- routine immunizations be-
warned that more than nificant delay in planned fore the age of 2.
half of 129 countries where vaccine deliveries due to In April, WHO and partners
immunization data were lockdown measures and a reluctantly recommended In this Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 file photo, a health official
available reported moder- dramatic reduction in the a temporary halt to mass administers a polio vaccine to children at a camp for people
ate, severe or total suspen- number of available flights. polio immunization cam- displaced by Islamist Extremist in Maiduguri, Nigeria.
sions of vaccination servic- More than 40 of Africa's 54 paigns aimed at eradicat- Associated Press
es during March and April. nations have closed their ing the paralytic disease, would lead to a resurgence ter-borne disease.
"Disruption to immunization borders, though some al- recognizing the move of the highly infectious, wa-