Pakistan: Militant Attack Kills Second Police Officer Guarding Polio Workers in Two Days
Militant opposition to vaccination drives fuels attacks on security personnel, with two officers killed in 24 hours in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said.
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Cop shot dead while guarding polio team in KP’s Nowshera: police
A police constable deployed for the security of a polio team was killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Nowshera district on Wednesday, police said. The attack comes a day after a Levies constable was shot dead while guarding a polio team in the province’s Swat district. The government launched a nationwide polio eradication campaign earlier this week, aiming to vaccinate over 45 million children. A specia…
Another cop guarding polio team killed - Islamabad Post
Bureau Report PESHAWAR: Another security person, guarding polio vaccination workers, was killed in the Nowshera district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Wednesday, police said. Pakistan is one of two countries, along with Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic. Hundreds of security personnel and health workers were killed by miscreants over the past decade. The policeman was killed in Nowshera on the third day of a nationwide anti-polio campaign…
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