Saturday, 14 February 2015

Polio worker killed in Landikotal attack


LANDIKOTAL: A polio worker was killed while an other wounded when unknown gunmen ambushed a health team in Kaskay Sheen Pokh area of Loey Shalman,which share border with Afghanistan,local and official sources said  on Saturday.
The sources said that a health team was on way to Landikotal hospital from Loey Shalman to attend a health related meeting.
"Several gunmen setting near the roadside opened indiscriminate firing on the vehicle when the health team was passing through them",a local source in Sheen Pokh told this scribe.

Two persons,identified as Zyat Wali son of Zar Ali and Bacha Khan son of Amroz Khan sustained bullets wounds.The sources said that assailants fled the scene after committing the crime.
The injured persons were rushed to Agency Headquarters hospital but one of the injured Zyat Wali(driver) succumbed to his injuries.
Soon after the incident,sources said,Landikotal assistant political agent Muhammad Tayyab Abdullah dispatched a contingent of Khasadars and levies force to the site and collected the evidences for investigation.
Sources in Landikotal hospital told this scribe that polio teams regularly held meeting on every Saturday to prepare plan for anti-polio campaign. 
 

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