Militants killed a police officer guarding polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, in the second such attack in as many days.
Pakistan is one of two countries, along with Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic, but militants have killed hundreds of police officers and health workers over the past decade as part of a campaign against the Pakistani state.
The policeman was killed in Nowshera district, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on the third day of a nationwide anti-polio campaign targeting 45 million children.
“Two armed militants targeted a police officer assigned to protect a polio team,” local police official Bilal Khan told AFP. “He was killed on the spot,” Khan added.
