At least 14 people have been killed and 20 others injured in an explosion near a polio centre in the city of Quetta, police have told Al Jazeera.
Rescue teams shifted the victims to the Civil Hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan province, where an emergency was declared after Wednesday’s blast.
The attack comes after the anti-polio campaign was relaunched in Quetta and other districts of Balochistan on Monday.
Pakistan remains on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) list of polio-endemic countries. Last year, 49 new cases of polio were reproted in Pakistan, a huge drop from 282 in 2014.
The campaign faced threats against polio vaccination teams issued by armed religious groups such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its allies in the past.
Source: Agencies
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