Islamabad: At least seven policemen – guarding an anti-polio team - were killed in Pakistan’s Karachi city on Wednesday when attackers targeted them in Organi Town area.
Banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the carnage. Officials said two police parties were targeted in Bangla Bazar area of Orangi Town where eight gunmen on motorbikes fired shots on patrolling vehicles.
The policemen were guarding polio teams in the restive locality of Karachi where several polio teams have been attacked in the past.
The deceased were guarding health workers engaged in a four-day anti-polio campaign started on Monday. This is not the first time that police deployed for security of polio workers have come under attack from insurgents opposed to the campaign.
At least 14 people were killed and several others were wounded in a blast near a polio centre in Quetta’s Satellite Town in January this year.
