Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire and killed a policeman guarding a group of polio workers going door-to-door in northwestern Pakistan, police said. This is the latest in a series of attacks targeting polio vaccination campaigns in the country.
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The latest attack took place in Bannu, a district in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to police officer Nasrullah Khan. The policeman who was gunned down was standing on a street corner and the attackers fled the scene, Khan said.In a similar attack Wednesday in Bajur, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a group of gunmen on motorcycles killed two people, a polio worker and a police escort.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the two attacks, which have spread fears among the polio workers. Authorities on Monday launched a new, nationwide polio vaccination campaign amid stepped-up security to protect the polio workers. On Monday, a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect polio workers in the district of South Waziristan, also in the same province, wounding six officers and three civilians. The militant Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
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