Gunmen kill a polio worker and a policeman during a vaccination campaign in Pakistan
Wednesday, 11 September 2024 () Pakistani police say gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the northwest, killing an officer and a polio worker. No one immediately claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack in Bajur, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. Pakistan on Monday launched a nationwide anti-polio campaign amid a spike in militant attacks. The potentially fatal, paralyzing disease mostly strikes children under age 5 and typically spreads through contaminated water. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in which the spread of polio has never been stopped.
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Pakistan launched an emergency vaccination drive after the first case of polio in 16 years was reported in the capital. As the campaign began, an attack on an... Deutsche Welle
Wednesday, 11 September 2024 ()
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