Ottawa: A security guard was seriously wounded in a shooting at Canadian rapper Drake's Toronto mansion early on Tuesday, police said, without confirming whether the five-time Grammy award winner was at home during the incident.

Police said the shooting happened around 2:00am and officers responding to the incident found a man with a gunshot wound who was taken to a hospital. A suspected shooter was spotted and the individual fled in a vehicle.

Speaking to reporters in front of Drake's home in Toronto's lavish Bridle Path neighborhood, often dubbed "Millionaires Row," Inspector Paul Krawczyk said the investigation was at an early stage and information was very limited.

Police had not yet established a motive behind the shooting and details of the shooter or the vehicle were not yet available, Krawczyk said.

The wounded man, a security guard who was standing outside the mansion gates, was still in the hospital in serious condition, he said. Krawczyk could not confirm whether Drake was at home at the time of the incident but said police were in contact with his team, which was cooperating.

Asked if the incident was linked to an ongoing feud between Drake and American rapper Kendrick Lamar, Krawczyk said he was aware of it, but said it was too early in the investigation to assign any motive and declined to comment further.

Lamar, who has won 17 Grammy awards, escalated his musical battle with Drake over the past week by releasing a three "diss" tracks in 36 hours, according to Variety. The video of the last of the three songs, "Not Like Us," featured aerial view of Drake's Toronto mansion.

The song, which has over 23 million views on Lamar's YouTube channel, prompted some fans to add an "Owned by Kendrick" label to Drake's Toronto house on Google Maps, according to the National Post newspaper. The label has since been taken down.

Representatives for Drake and Lamar did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

SOURCE: REUTERS

Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Wednesday accepted Bushra Bibi's request and ordered her transfer to Adiala Jail.

Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of IHC pronounced last week’s reserved decision after the parties completed their arguments.

It is pertinent to note that Bushra Bibi had filed a petition for transfer from Bani Gala to Adiala Jail. The jail authorities took the stand before the court that she should not be transferred in jail due to lack of capacity and security issues.

Notably, the wife of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and the former first lady is serving imprisonment and penalty in the Tosha Khana reference and Illegal Marriage cases.

Wild poliovirus Type-1 (WP1) has been detected in four more sewage samples from previously affected districts, bringing the total number of positive environmental samples to 112 this year.

According to the media report, this was confirmed by the National Institute of Health's (NIH) Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication, which said that polio was confirmed in three samples collected from different districts of Karachi and one collected from Pishin.

The samples are genetically linked to the imported YB3A cluster of wild polioviruses type-1.

According to a lab official, the virus has been detected in sewage samples of 33 districts so far this year.

He said that all the positive samples and two human cases reported this year involved the YB3A cluster, which was eliminated from the country in 2021 but was present in Afghanistan and re-entered the country through cross-border transmission last year.

It has also been stated by the lab official that the sewage water samples of the area are a key parameter to determine the success of the polio campaign, adding that the presence of the virus in the sewage also indicates that the immunity of children in the area has decreased. And the risk of getting affected by the disease has intensified in them.