LAKKI MARWAT: Deputy commissioner of Lakki Marwat district Abdul Hadi on Monday took notice of the refusal of government employees to vaccinate their children against polio and ordered punitive action against them.

An official told Dawn that the health department submitted a list of polio refusal cases to the district administration.

He said that during the ongoing five days antipolio campaign, healthworkers pointed out the parents, who were reluctant to vaccinate their children.

`Employees of police, public health engineering, education and excise and taxation departments and tehsil municipal administration are among the people, whose children haven`t received polio drops,` he said.

The official said that the deputy commissioner forwarded the names of those officials to heads of the relevant departments to ensure that children are vaccinated against the virus for their good health.

`The departments will initiate disciplinary action against the employees, who continue to refuse vaccination of their children,` he said.

KILLED: Gunmenkilled a man over an old enmity near the Dallokhel Phattak railway crossing here on Monday.

The murder was reported in the limits of the Lakki city police station.

The police said that the deceased, Shafiullah, 44, and his nephew, Hujatullah, 24, were targeted by their armed rivals as the former were on the way to Dallokhel village after attending a court hearing at the Judicial Complex Tajazai.

They said that the attackers later escaped in a car.

Hujatullah, who was injured in the gun attack, told the police that as soon as he and his uncle came out of a coach at Dallokhel Phattak, their rivals, including A m a n u 1 1 a hand Yousaf Khan, opened fire at them and fled in a car.

He added that his uncle suffered multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot.

The police said that the gunmen and their victims belonged to the same village, Dallokhel.

They said that the body was handed over to relatives after medico-legal experts fulfilled formalities at the Government City Hospital.

The police said that they had registered a case against both killers under the Pakistan Penal Code`s sections 302 (premeditated murder), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) before beginning investigation.

However, no arrest was made until night.