Daily Times

Unidentified assailants opened fire on a female polio worker while she was participating in a polio vaccination campaign in Quetta’s Bhosa Mandi on Wednesday morning.

According to police, Ghazala was administering polio drops to children when some motorcyclists opened fire on her and escaped from the scene.

Ghazala sustained bullet injuries while other polio workers survived the attack, police added. Rescue workers and a heavy contingent of security forces rushed to the spot and shifted the injured to Civil Hospital’s trauma centre for medical treatment. In January 2018, a mother and daughter vaccinating polio drops were killed during a brazen attack on female polio workers in Quetta’s Hazara Ganji area. So far no group has claimed responsibility of the attack.

Police further added that the polio worker was vaccinating children without security in Quetta’s most sensitive area.

“We have registered the FIR of the incident, while the hunt for the attackers is underway,” police said.

Published in Daily Times, December 27^th 2018.