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Pakistan: Policeman killed as gunmen attack polio team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Tank

By ANI | Updated: December 12, 2021 05:10 IST

A policeman was killed on Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Tank who was protecting the polio vaccination team.

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A policeman was killed on Saturday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Tank who was protecting the polio vaccination team.

The incident took place in Tank, Dera Ismail Khan District of KP, when armed men on a motorcycle attacked the polio security team, killing one security official and injuring another, reported Geo News, citing the district health officer.

The armed men fled the scene, and a police search operation to find them is underway, DHO Sajjad Ahmed told Geo News.

The body of the killed security personnel and injured are being shifted to the hospital, said Ahmed.

Extremist groups often target polio teams and security assigned to protect them, claiming the vaccination campaigns are a conspiracy to sterilise children.

In August, constable Dilawar Khan was on his way to polio duty in Dera Ismail Khan when unidentified assailants opened fire on him near the Atal Sharif area of Kalachi Tehsil, killing him on the spot while the accused fled, police had reported.

In a second attack in the month of August, a Frontier Reserve Police officer was shot dead by unidentified persons in Peshawar within the limits of the Daudzai police station.

Meanwhile, the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed that its fighters attacked the polio team in Tank, reported Geo News.

The WHO deemed Pakistan and Afghanistan as dangerous countries in a recent statement by the Thirtieth Polio IHR Emergency Committee, stating that the two countries have failed to eradicate polio fully and may be responsible for the virus's global spread.

( With inputs from ANI )

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