QUETTA, July 30: A policeman was killed when gunmen attacked a team administering polio drops to children in the Killi Tarata area of Pishin district on Tuesday.

The District Communications Officer of Unicef, Shamsullah Tareen, told journalists that assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on the team when volunteers were administering polio vaccine to children outside a house in Killi Tarata.

“The gunmen came there and opened indiscriminate fire on the volunteers. Policeman Shah Mohammad, who was escorting the polio team, was wounded in the attack,” he said.

Later, the policeman died on way to hospital. The volunteers remained unhurt. The attackers managed to escape.

After the attack, anti-polio teams stopped their vaccination campaign in Pishin and Qila Abdullah districts.