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KOHAT: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police officer deployed for the security of polio vaccination workers in Kohat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday.
According to details, unidentified individuals opened fire on an anti-polio team in Dhal Behzadi district of Kohat and fled. Police personnel and rescue volunteers rushed to the location as soon as the incident was reported.
The body of the deceased cop was shifted to a nearby hospital and handed over to the family. Meanwhile, the provincial police have launched a search operation to nab the accused after gathering evidence.
KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan offered condolences over the death of the policeman and expressed his heartfelt sympathy to the family. KP CM directed the police to take the necessary steps for the immediate arrest of those involved in the crime.
“Those who fired on the polio team are the enemies of our children. The perpetrators of the incident cannot escape the clutches of the law,” Mahmood Khan said, adding that incidents such as this will not dampen the morale of the polio vaccination teams.
Volunteers and police personnel involved in the anti-polio campaign across the country and in K-P, in particular, are being targeted by militants.
In August, a policeman deployed for the security of the anti-polio team was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Peshawar. The officer was returning home on his motorcycle after providing security for a polio team.
Separately, a roadside bomb exploded as a police van passed by while escorting a polio vaccination team in the Ladha area of the South Waziristan tribal district. The blast wounded an officer in the van.
