US EditionSuspected militants kill 2, including a police officer guarding polio team in northwestern Pakistan
Attack on police guarding polio team kills two amid ongoing militant threats; over 200 polio workers and protectors have died in similar violence, officials say.
- On Tuesday, suspected militants opened fire on a police officer guarding a polio vaccination team in the Tangi area of Salarzai tehsil, Bajaur district, killing the officer and a passerby before fleeing.
- The assault followed the launch of a weeklong nationwide vaccination campaign a day earlier aimed at immunising more than 45 million children, opposed by militant groups including suspected Pakistani Taliban who falsely claim a Western conspiracy.
- Local authorities launched searches and raids after the shooting; local police chief Samad Khan said no polio worker was harmed in the Bajaur incident.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack, urged swift identification of perpetrators, and reiterated that the anti-polio campaign will continue despite more than 200 polio workers and police killed since the 1990s.
- The WHO notes Pakistan remains one of two countries where polio persists, with 30 cases since January and 19 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, highlighting ongoing public-health challenges.
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Suspected militants kill 2, including a police officer guarding polio team in northwestern Pakistan
Police say suspected militants have opened fire on a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing the officer and a passerby.
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