Police constable laid to rest after funeral prayers at Police Lines
Haqnawaz Shinwari
Peshawar
A policeman accompanying an anti-polio team embraced martyrdom after unknown gunmen opened fire at the security team of polio workers in Takht-e-Nasrati area of Karak district on Tuesday.
Unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at the team, killing Constable Junaidullah, a resident of Mianki. Junaidullah belonged to the Frontier Reserve Police.
The police said an anti-polio team was vaccinating children in the area when they were attacked. The polio immunization drive has been stopped after the attack. Police have cordoned off the area and started a search operation to arrest the culprits.
The funeral prayer of police constable, who was martyred in a firing incident at the polio team, was offered at Police Lines.
A large number of police officials, members of trade associations and citizen attended the funeral. They lauded services of martyred police constable for scarifying his life in the line of duty. Later, his body was shifted to ancestral village Manaki for burial.
In a second attack on a polio team in Upper Dir, a Levies officer was injured. The incident took place in a village near Sheringal, an administrative unit of Upper Dir district.
A resident of Kando attacked the security team of the polio team with sticks and stones during an anti-polio campaign. Sources said the accused were arrested on the spot and handed over to Sheringal police.
Pakistan’s first polio vaccination for 2021 started on January 11. The national polio immunization drive will last for five days and aims to vaccinate over 40 million children under the age of five across Pakistan.
