Two polio workers tortured

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Two polio workers were tortured by a family while they were performing their duties in the Union Council No 9 of Ravi Road on Thursday.

According to details, Sunny and Tehseen were providing polio vaccine to the children of the Ravi Road area when members of a family started beating them up. On their complaint, the police reached the scene immediately and arrested two persons for torturing the polio workers.

After the incident, many polio workers of the area gathered and demonstrated outside the Ravi Road Police Station. They said that the police are pressurising them to let go of the incident.

After the news broke out on television channels, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took notice of the incident and ordered the health secretary and district administration to submit a report.