ISLAMABAD: First Lady Bibi Asifa Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday strongly condemned the attack on police personnel deployed to protect polio teams in Mohmand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In a statement, she paid tribute to the officials for their courage and sacrifice while performing their national duty to protect children from polio.
The first lady also expressed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured official.
She reiterated that such cowardly attacks could not deter Pakistan’s efforts to protect its children from polio.
According to local police, two policemen were martyred and another was injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand district on Tuesday.
The personnel were on their way to join a polio team for security duty.
In September, two policemen were martyred as armed assailants fired at a polio vaccination team in Balochistan’s Noshki.
Similarly, a police constable was martyred and four others were injured in an attack on a law enforcement party en route to provide security for polio teams in KP’s Hangu in April.
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