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KARACHI: Police, on Saturday, registered a case against two suspects who allegedly tortured polio workers in Karachi’s Frere area, Karachi.
As per details, the case was lodged on the complaint of a polio communication officer who was subjected to torture. The First Information Report (FIR) stated that two men misbehaved and tortured the anti-polio vaccination team, whereas, the accused also beat a woman polio worker.
It added that the mobile phones of the polio workers were also snatched. After the registration of a case, police launched manhunt for the suspects.
Earlier on June 28, two policemen and a polio worker were killed as unknown gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in the North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The polio team was targeted in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.
Following the incident, the anti-polio drive had been suspended as all the polio teams were called off from the North Waziristan district.