Five children among seven killed in attack on Pakistan polio vaccine drive
Al Jazeera
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemns attack near a girls’ school in the southwestern province of Balochistan.
At least seven people, including five schoolchildren, have been killed and 23 injured in a bombing near a girls’ school in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.
Friday’s attack targeted police guarding a polio vaccination drive in Mastung, a town in Balochistan province.
“The target was a police van which was going to pick up a polio [vaccination] team,” Senior Superintendent of Police Rahmat Ullah told the Reuters news agency.
One police officer and a shopkeeper were also killed in the explosion, senior police officer Abdul Fatah told the AFP news agency.
The blast was believed to have been caused by an improvised device attached to a motorcycle parked near the school.
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