Attack on a health center used in an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan kills a police officer

Two cops guarding polio vaccinators martyred in KP

Volunteer administers polio vaccine to a child amid police security in this undated photo. — APP/FileArmed terrorists martyred two policemen protecting a polio vaccination team in Upper Orakzai, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while three attackers were also killed in retaliatory fire by security...

2 policemen guarding polio team shot dead in KP’s Orakzai

Police kill two attackers, local accomplice in response.

Two policemen killed in attack on polio vaccination teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Two policemen were killed in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as unidentified gunmen attacked a health office where...

Polio vaccinators attacked, held hostage in 2 separate incidents in Pak

Peshawar: Three terrorists were killed in a gunbattle when they attacked a polio vaccinators’ team in Pakistan’s restive northwestern province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday, October 29. In another incident, unknown militants took hostage the entire team of polio vaccinators at a dispensary in the same province, sources said here. The attack on polio vaccinators came a day after Pakistan on Monday started its third nationwide polio campaign to va…

Militants kill police officer in attack on polio vaccination centre

Militants attacked a health centre used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, triggering a shootout that left a police officer dead, local authorities said. Three of the attackers were also killed in the exchange. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Orakzai, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. Local police officer Adnan Khan said the…

Policeman killed in attack on polio teams in Pakistan

Militants have attacked a health centre used in an anti-polio campaign in northwest Pakistan, triggering a shootout that left a police officer dead.