A large team of polio vaccinators was taken hostage in Ghotki district of Sindh on Monday and police was called in to tackle the situation, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
According to Tehsildar Ashraf Pitafi, the polio team consisting of 26 people including 12 women was taken hostage in Kharohi area of the district.
Ashraf Pitafi further informed that criminals of the district have made the team hostage and demanded that they would be given a water share from the local canal.
The Tehsildar termed their demand as illegal.
Immunisation campaign kicks off today
A week-long door-to-door anti-polio immunisation campaign was started in various districts of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan on Monday (today).
As per the health department, in this campaign, trained polio workers will go door to door in certain districts to administer the polio vaccine to children under the age of five years.
In Punjab, over two million children under the age of five years will be vaccinated in twelve districts, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Bhakkar, DG Khan, Layyah, Mianwali, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Sheikhupura.
In Sindh, about seven hundred thousand children will be administered anti-polio drops in Hyderabad and Larkana district.
In Balochistan, over 1.2 million children up to five years of age would be administered anti-polio drops in eighteen districts.
The government has postponed the anti-polio campaign in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa till next week.
Reporter Mir Zafarullah