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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