It was targeted at police guarding polio vaccinators.
MASTUNG, Pakistan - A bombing near a girls’ school in western Pakistan killed seven people, including five children, in an attack targeting police guarding polio vaccinators on Nov 1, officials said.
He added that “there is a girls’ school near the place of the attack” in the city of Mastung in Balochistan province. “Seven individuals: one police officer, five children and one shopkeeper” were killed in the attack at the city’s main market, senior officer Abdul Fatah told AFP.“Targeting children is an act of brutality,” he said in a statement.Earlier this week, two police officers guarding polio vaccinators going door-to-door in north-western Pakistan were shot dead in an attack blamed on militants.
Pakistan has seen a surge in polio cases in 2024, recording at least 41 so far in 2024 compared with six in 2023.
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