Two policemen escorting a polio vaccination team were martyred on Tuesday when armed men opened fire on them in Quetta’s Nawa Killi area, police said.
The policemen were escorting the vaccination team on Tuesday, the first day of a week-long campaign to administer the polio vaccination in Balochistan.
During the drive, more than 2.5 million children up to five years of age will be administered anti-polio drops.
The polio team was safe in the attack.
Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo took notice of the incident and sought a report on the attack from the concerned officials. He termed the incident a conspiracy against the healthy future of the nation’s children.
“The negative propaganda against the polio campaign and the malicious intentions of the anti-state elements will be thwarted,” he said as he called for bringing the perpetrators under the law.
