Peshawar: An incident of bombing has been reported from Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is being told that a vehicle carrying workers associated with the Pakistan Polio Program was bombed in the country's troubled northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. At least 6 people, including three policemen, have been injured in this bombing.

As a result of the blast, three frontline polio workers and three policemen were injured in Wana town of South Waziristan district. The injured were immediately rushed to a hospital and their condition is stated to be stable. Upon receiving the information, other police teams reached the blast site and launched a search operation to nab the accused.

Polio case found after 16 years

Let us tell you that last week in Pakistan, authorities recorded the first case of polio in the last 16 years in the capital Islamabad, which is a setback to the national efforts to eradicate this dangerous virus from the country.

12 cases reported from Balochistan 

The country came close to achieving zero poliovirus cases in 2021 when only one infection was reported. So far this year, 12 cases have been reported from Balochistan, three from Sindh and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

Separately in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, two motorcyclists threw suicide jackets when police signaled them to stop at Jamil Chowk on the Ring Road. The bomb squad has been called in to defuse the jackets containing seven kilograms of explosives.