Blast in Pakistan kills five police officers during polio vaccination drive

Pakistan bombing death toll climbs to 7 after wounded officer dies

An officer who was critically wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan died in a hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the attack, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, to seven. Police said in a statement that at least three officers remained in critical condition after Monday’s bombing in the district of Mamund, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban …

Death toll from attack on Pakistan polio workers rises

A seventh person has died after a bomb targeting police assigned to protect health workers administering polio vaccine to children in Pakistan.

Pakistani officer wounded in attack on polio workers dies, raising bombing death toll to 7

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — An officer who was critically wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan died in a hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the attack, claim

Bomb kills five police from Pakistan polio protection team

A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said. “A police truck transporting around 25 policemen for anti-polio campaign duties was targeted by an IED (improvised explosive device),” Anwar ul Haq, a senior government official in Bajaur district, told AFP. He said at least five police officers were killed and at least 20 others wounded. Kashif Z…

Pakistan Taliban blast kills five police protecting polio teams

A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan Monday, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group. Pakistani districts along the border with Afghanistan have seen a dramatic spike in attacks since the Taliban returned to…

TTP militants kill six Pakistani policemen going to escort polio vaccination team

A bomb explosion targeting policemen going to provide security for polio vaccination workers killed at least six of them and injured 22 others in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province