PESHAWAR—Militants shot dead a Pakistan policeman who was guarding a polio vaccination team on Tuesday, police said, as the country combats a recent
resurgence of the disease.
Malik Sikandar, a senior officer in the northwestern town of Orakzai, told AFP: “Two militants attacked a policeman guarding a polio vaccination team.” Another police official, Naveed Ullah Khan, confirmed the fatality and told AFP two vaccination workers on the team “were inside the home during the attack and remained safe”.
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