Child kidnapped by fake polio team

QUETTA: Women posing as polio vaccinators kidnapped a two month old child from Sarki road in Quetta on Wednesday.

According to police sources, two women posing as anti-polio workers accompanied by a gunman arrived at Ubaidullah’s house in his absence and administered drops to his children.

After administering polio drops the workers took his two month old son out of the house under the pretext that they had to record his weight, and boarded a rickshaw and escaped.

The police have registered a case against unknown persons and have launched an investigation.