ISLAMABAD: A Levies constable deployed for the protection of polio vaccination team was shot dead after unidentified assailants opened fire on him in the Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday according to the police authorities, local media reported.
The attack on Levies constable comes a day after the government launched a polio eradication campaign across the nation, with a goal to vaccinate more than 45 million children. According to Swat’s District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Umar Khan, Levies constable who was killed was doing his duty along with a polio team comprising two female health workers, Pakistan's leading daily Dawn reported.
Khan said, "The workers were administering vaccines inside a house while the constable was standing guard outside when he was attacked." He stated that the attackers fled from the spot following the incident. Police and law enforcement officials have arrived at the site of the incident and begun investigations.