KOHAT, Feb 17 Unidentified armed persons have kidnapped the coordinator of polio programme for Kohat and its Frontier Region and three other employees of health department in Darra Adamkhel in two separate incidents.

Sources said that Dr Sameen Shah was coming to Kohat from Peshawar along with his assistant Aurangzeb when he went missing with the official vehicle.

In another incident two other employees of health department of Federally Administered Tribal Areas were kidnapped by unidentified persons from the Indus Highway. The kidnapped employees were identified as Fayyaz Khan and Nimroze Khan.

The political administration had started efforts for the recovery of the four kidnapped officials of the health department.

Sources said that they went missing on late Monday evening but their kidnapping was confirmed on Tuesday by the officials. So far, no group of militants or criminals had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.

Meanwhile, the rehabilitation of water supply scheme at Darra Adamkhel Degree College in the semi autonomous Frontier Region of Kohat has been completed.

The college management had identified the scheme to the political administration. More than 700 students and teachers were facing problems due to the non-availability of water in the college.

During a brief speech Assistant Political Agent Sajjad Khan on Tuesday said that the government was trying to develop the tribal areas and provide basic facilities to tribesmen, according to a pres release issued by Fata Secretariat.

The staff members said that the college was almost non-functional after the military operation in the area and its infrastructure had been damaged in several attacks by the militants. Besides this, the biggest problem was the lack of drinking water in the college.

But now with the completion of the rehabilitation scheme the problem had been solved, they added.