Pakistani police say gunmen have shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect a polio vaccination team in the country's northwestPESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Gunmen on Monday shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan, an official said. It was the third attack in two days on Pakistani policemen assigned to protect polio workers. In Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, gunmen killed a policeman returning home after security duty with polio workers. And a roadside bomb went off near a police van escorting a polio vaccination team in the district of South Waziristan, wounding an officer. None of the medics on the polio teams were hurt in these attacks.

Source: ABC News August 02, 2021 07:30 UTC