Unidentified armed men abducted four polio immunisation workers after firing upon them in a village within the Sheikh Attar union council in Tank.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident. Sources said the suspects were affiliated with the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. In a separate incident, armed men abducted two members of a polio vaccination team in the Azam Warsak area of Lower South Waziristan, though both vaccinators were later released.
The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) for Polio Eradication confirmed Pakistan's seventh polio case of the year, which was reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The NEOC said the infected child is a 13-month-old girl from the Jan Baz Union Council in Bara tehsil.
The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) for Polio Eradication said this was the second polio case reported from Khyber district this year. According to the NEOC, six of the seven cases reported across the country so far this year emerged from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while one case was reported from Sindh.
