Two Pakistani law enforcement officials had been injured on Wednesday when unknown gunmen opened fireplace at anti-polio vaccination groups in two separate incidents within the nation’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police stated. The incidents occurred within the Tank and Dera Ismail Khan districts of the province, police stated.
The gunmen ambushed the team that was administering oral polio drops to youngsters throughout a door-to-door marketing campaign within the Shah Alam village within the Tank district bordering Afghanistan. A police constable escorting the workforce was injured within the firing. The attackers managed to flee from the scene. Police launched a search operation within the space to arrest the culprits.
Within the second incident, a police constable was injured when militants fired at polio vaccinators within the Kulachi tehsil of the Dera Ismail Khan district.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Amin Gandapur condemned the 2 assaults on the polio workforce and directed the district police to make each attainable effort for the early arrest of the accused. “Polio staff are our frontline heroes, and such cowardice acts couldn’t deter their resolve of eliminating this crippling illness from the nation,” he stated.
Incidents of assaults on polio groups within the province have claimed scores of lives, together with these of polio staff and policemen escorting the vaccinators within the latest previous.
In January, a polio immunisation programme coordinator was killed, and a policeman was injured when their car was attacked within the province.
Earlier in the identical month, two folks had been injured when a bomb planted on the roadside hit a car within the Bajaur tribal district.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are the one international locations on this planet the place polio stays endemic, in response to the World Well being Organisation.