BAJAUR: (HRNW) At least five policemen were martyred and 13 were injured Monday in an IED bomb blast targeting cops’ vehicle in Bajaur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to rescue officials, the blast took place in Mamund area of Bajaur.
The policemen were going to provide security to polio vaccination teams when their vehicle was targeted with IED bomb. The bodies and injured were moved to the hospital, where an emergency was declared, they added.
A nationwide anti-polio drive of varied duration has begun to administer vaccine drops to children under five years of age.
During the campaign, Polio teams of the health department will go door to door in all 159 districts of the country.
In Punjab, during a week-long polio campaign over twenty-three million children will be administered polio drops.