PESHAWAR: A police constable was martyred and four others were injured in an attack on a polio team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district on Monday.
The incident took place on the first day of a week-long nationwide polio vaccination campaign taking place from April 13 to 19.
Police said the incident occurred in Hangu’s Thall tehsil when a police team was going to escort a polio team.
Police retaliated and killed two of the attackers. However, terrorists took the bodies from the scene.
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