Unknown armed men have carried out a Tank polio workers kidnapping after opening fire in the district, taking four vaccination staff from village Jiyos in Union Council Sheikh Uttar. Police said the attackers moved all four workers to an unknown place and have begun efforts to recover them and investigate the incident.
What police say happened
According to police, unidentified gunmen struck in the Sheikh Uttar area and seized the four polio workers after firing. Officers said the armed group then left with the workers for a location that has not yet been identified. Police confirmed that inquiries into the Tank polio workers kidnapping are under way alongside the search for the missing staff.
No names of the kidnapped workers, no claim of responsibility, and no word on their condition have been made public so far. Officials have not said whether anyone else was hurt in the firing.
Polio drive under tight security nearby
On the same day, a four-day anti-polio campaign began in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts of Hangu, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan. District police officers in those areas are personally overseeing security for the drive: Salahuddin Kundi in Hangu, Shafiullah Gandapur in Bannu, and Ziauddin Ahmed in Dera Ismail Khan.
They directed personnel on polio duty to wear bulletproof jackets and helmets, avoid using mobile phones, and stay fully alert while working. The instructions underline how sensitive vaccination rounds remain in parts of the province when field teams move through communities.
What happens next
Attention now centres on locating the four workers taken in the Tank polio workers kidnapping and establishing who carried out the attack. Families and colleagues will look to police updates on the recovery effort. In neighbouring districts, the four-day campaign continues under the tighter security rules already issued to staff.
Aasan alfaaz mein
Tank ke Sheikh Uttar ke gaon Jiyos mein namaloom musallah logon ne firing ke baad char polio workers ko aghwa kar liya. Police ke mutabiq unhein kisi namaloom jagah le jaya gaya hai aur unki bazyabi ki koshish shuru ho chuki hai. Qareebi zilaon mein polio campaign chal rahi hai aur police ne security mazeed sakht kar di hai. Bacchon ko vaccine denewale teams ke liye yeh waqia khatre ki nishani hai.
