A polio team was attacked in the port city’s Korangi district, police said on Friday, marking the latest incident of violence against workers deployed to administer life-saving drops to children.
According to the police, when polio workers visited a family in a locality in Korangi to administer vaccines, the family’s men and women physically attacked them and snatched their mobile phones.
Two cops were injured and the same number of polio workers also sustained injuries.
The police said that additional personnel arrived at the scene after receiving information about the incident and arrested six individuals, including four women, involved in the attack on the team.
The police further stated that the polio workers and officials, who sustained minor injuries in the attack, were shifted to the hospital for medical treatment.
