Quetta: Two polio team members shot dead

Author: Web Desk

LAHORE: Unidentified armed men attacked on Thursday a polio vaccination team in Shalkot area of Quetta city.

Two lady health workers were killed as a result of the firing, the police informed.

The bodies were shifted to near by hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Identities of the deceased were not immediately known.

According to media reports, attackers escaped unhurt from the site of the attack, as a heavy contingent of law enforcers and Frontier Corps reached the area.

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