QUETTA – Two women polio workers were killed during a firing incident inShalkot area of Quetta on Thursday after year’s firstcountrywide campaign launched earlier this week.
According to police, unknown assailants targeted a team of poliovaccinators when two women got injured. They were shifted to hospital wherethey succumbed to their injuries. The deceased women have identified asmother and her daughter.
The police have launched an investigation into the case to trace theculprits.
In the recent campaign, according to health officials, 19.15 millionchildren will be administered polio drops in Punjab, 8.7 million in Sindh,5.68 million in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 2.46 million in Balochistan, 1.03million in Federally Administered Tribal Areas, 0.74 million in Azad Jammuand Kashmir, 0.237 million in Gilgit-Baltistan and 0.313 million childrenin Islamabad.