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A doctor and a policeman were injured on Friday after unidentified assailants opened fire on a vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district.
Station House Officer (SHO) of Mamond Police Station Dilawar Khan told Dawn.com that unknown persons attacked Dr Abdul Rehman’s vehicle when he was coming back from the District Headquarters Hospital Khar in the Tarkhoo area of Mamond Tehsil.
The SHO said that the doctor was coordinator of the polio immunisation programme in Bajaur.
According to Rescue 1122’s Media Coordinator Ibraheem Khan, the teams provided medical aid to the injured persons and shifted them to District Headquarters Hospitals in critical condition.
Today’s attack on the polio official came after eight policemen on polio duty were killed and 27 injured in the bomb attack on a police vehicle in the Billoot area of Mamond tehsil on Jan 8.
Police guarding health workers during house-to-house vaccination campaigns continue to get killed by militants, who are opposed to polio immunisation in KP.
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