Unidentified assailants shot and killed on Wednesday two police officers assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police said.
The victims, identified as police constables Shakir and Syed Raza, were on security duty for the polio team and were on their way back to the police station on a motorcycle after safely dropping the team off, said District Police Officer (DPO) Zahidullah. He added that the two had been shot at by unknown assailants who then managed to escape.
According to the DPO, the two policemen died on the spot. The bodies were shifted to the Mardan District Headquarters Hospital for post-mortem. The DPO further said that the police had launched an operation to search for the assailants and evidence was being collected…
