Another cop on polio duty martyred in Tank firing

The incident is the second consecutive attack on polio teams in K-P

TANK:

A security official was martyred in another attack on a polio team in Shadagra village of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) on Sunday.

According to Express News, terrorists attacked a polio team in the Shadagra village of the Tank district in K-P. Due to firing by the unknown assailants, Nazir Ahmad a police constable on duty was martyred.

Police officials stated that a heavy contingent of police rushed to the spot and shifted the body of the martyred officer to the hospital, while security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation.

This is the second attack in two days on polio teams in Tank.

A policeman was martyred, and a Frontier Constabulary official suffered serious injuries on Saturday – both deployed for the security of polio teams – when unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire at them in the Tank district of K-P.

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The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) a day after they called off a ceasefire with the government.

District Police Officer Sahibzada Sajjad told The Express Tribune that Head Constable Iqbal and FC official Taj Khan had been deployed in the Chadrar village on the outskirts of Tank

“The injured has been shifted to hospital where his condition is critical while the body of the policeman has been sent for an autopsy,” the official added.

The DPO said a large number of policemen reached the scene of the attack and cordoned it off, but the attackers managed to escape.