TANK:Two policemen, escorting a polio team, were martyred in firing by terrorists at Kot Azam Nai Abadi in Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

According to rescue sources, a gang of terrorists shot dead two policemen when they were guarding a polio team in Kot Azam Nai Abadi in Tank district. The victims were identified as Nisar and Pir Rehman.

The killers fled to unknown destination after swift operation. The bodies were shifted to a local hospital for medico-legal formalities. A heavy contingent of police reached the spot. The security forces have launched an operation to hunt down the unidentified attackers.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the polio team in Tank district and paid glowing tributes to the martyred policemen. The prime minister said that the police had made great sacrifices against terrorism. “We pay our salutations to the martyrs,” he added. “The attackers of polio workers want to cripple the children of the nation. We will not sit idle until we eliminate the enemies of the health of the nation’s children,” he vowed.