Polio workers vow to vaccinate children despite security threats in Quetta
The case includes 302, 427, 353, 186, 324 and other anti-terror Sections
QUETTA (Dunya News) – Polio workers and personnel deployed for their security have vowed to not let threats deter their progress after an attack on an anti-polio centre in Satellite Town yesterday, Dunya News reported Thursday.
A case has been registered today against the attack that claimed as many as 15 lives while left at least 24 wounded. The case has been registered against unidentified miscreants on complaint of Station House Officer (SHO) Ahmed Ali.
The case includes Sections 302, 427, 353, 186, 324 and others.
All the injured persons are under treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and their conditions are stable. However, bodies of eight martyrs have been laid to rest in native towns.
Thousands of people participated in the furneral prayers of the departed.
The martyred persons include 12 policemen and one Frontier Constabulary (FC) constable.
On January 13, the personnel were gathering outside the centre in Satellite Town area to accompany polio workers for the third day of a vaccination campaign in Quetta. Law enforcers had stated that at least seven Kilogram (Kg) explosives were used in the blast.
FC, police and other law enforcement agencies have shut different buisness points and commercial installments surrounding the blast site for security purpose. More tha 150 personnel of different agencies have been deloyed in and around Satellite Town.
Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti arrived at the attack site and inspected the investigation process. He vowed to not let insurgents flee the province.
To counter threat to lives of polio workers have been a constant struggle for the federal and provincial governments. Several attacks in the past have been seen in different areas of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The most recent attack came in November last year, when unknown gunmen shot and killed the head of an immunisation programme in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district of Swabi.
