Date : August 1, 2023
Location : Quetta
Casualties :2
Gender : male ,
QUETTA: Two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi attackers opened fire on a police team stationed in Quetta’s Nawa Killi neighbourhood to protect polio vaccine providers on Tuesday, killing two officers only hours after the province’s anti-polio campaign began.
Constables Shaukat Ali and Syed Muhammad were named as the fatalities by Zarghoonabad Station House Officer (SHO) Asif Marwat, who also confirmed the casualties. Both belonged to the Shi’a community of Muslims.
An off shoot of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) has claimed this attack.
This faction has been claiming several attacks in Balochistan since the start of 2023; however, other senior members of LeJ have disowned this faction, claimikg it is not officially affiliated with the… https://t.co/78WmtTp48c pic.twitter.com/KTIopYsAun
— The Khorasan Diary (@khorasandiary) August 2, 2023
References:
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1096195-two-cops-guarding-polio-team-killed-in-quetta
https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2347846/pakistan
https://www.dawn.com/news/1767981