Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday killed two women workers of a polio vaccination team and a police guard in Mansehra, the latest in a spate of deadly attacks on the teams.
Lady health worker Sitara Gull and constable Mushtaq, who was with the polio team for security, got killed in Sheikhabad area of Mansehra when unidentified gunmen opened fire on the polio team, police said.
According to police another lady health worker Kaneez Nargis, who was also part of the team, was injured and later succumbed to her injuries in the hospital. Police has started the search operation in the area to find the murderers.
Police said two attackers fired at the workers as they gave polio drops to children in the mountainous Sheikhabad area, 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of the city of Mansehra.
“The two-member team was administering polio drops in an Afghan refugee camp and its surrounding areas when two gunmen opened fire on them, killing one lady worker and a policeman and wounding another lady worker and a passer-by,” local police chief Muhammad Ejaz Khan said.
Such a Shame attacking Polio Workers !
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