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Cop martyred in attack on polio vaccine team in KP
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ISLAMABAD: A police officer was martyred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday when a polio vaccination team he was escorting was attacked in a drive-by shooting.
The attack in Karak, marked the second day of a five-day national immunisation drive. State media reported that the policeman was a constable, and specified the location of the attack at Takht Nusrati, situated on the area bordering Bannu and Karak districts.
“A policeman escorting a polio team came under attack. they came on a motorcycle and opened fire from the back,” said Naqeeb Khan, a police official in Karak. “The policeman was killed on the spot,” he told AFP. Another senior police official in the town confirmed details of the incident.
A police officer was shot dead in northwestern Pakistan yesterday when a polio vaccination team he was escorting was attacked in a drive-by shooting. The attack in Karak, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, marked the second day of a five-day national immunisation drive. The United Nations says endemic polio has been eliminated in every country of the world apart from