Three injured in attack on polio team in Bajaur

PESHAWAR: 3 individuals were contusioned on Wednesday once a unmanned  blast targeted a poliomyelitis team within the Bajaur social group region's Mamond tehsil.

Rescue groups rush to the location of the attack and shifted the contusioned UN agency enclosed 2 Levies personnel on security duty and a driver to a hospital in Khar.

Official sources aforesaid that the poliomyelitis team was targeted in Dabara space of Mamond tehsil.

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Earlier on Tuesday, militants had vulnerable to focus on {polio|poliomyelitis|infantile paralysis|acute anterior poliomyelitismyelitis|infectious disease} groups taking part within the current polio drive.

Pamphlets were distributed in several areas of Bajaur social group region warning the tribesmen of dire consequences for continued the anti-polio campaign.

Immunisation groups are under fire within the social group region. On September ten, a Levies man was killed once a poliomyelitis team was attacked within the Damadola space of Bajaur. every day later, a paramilitary soldier escorting a vaccination team was shot dead in Mamond.

The latest threats to protection groups return as Asian country poor its 13-year-old record of 199 poliomyelitis cases on Gregorian calendar month three. Official information shows that an amazing ninety six per cent of poliomyelitis cases to date reported  were found among the Pashto-speaking population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and therefore the Federally Administered social group Areas (Fata).

Fata of that Bajaur could be a unit — that has ne'er been able to immunize its targeted population of around 9 million since the world poliomyelitis obliteration initiative began in Asian country within the middle Nineteen Nineties — has become a challenge for the govt and international organisation agencies, that area unit finding it very onerous to deal with the problem of reaching susceptible kids.

A recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report aforesaid Asian country was accountable for nearly eighty per cent of poliomyelitis cases reported  globally.