Gunmen kill two policemen guarding Pakistan polio team

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Two officers guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan were shot dead by unidentified assailants, police said on Tuesday (Aug 16), the latest deaths in an ongoing campaign to eradicate the disease. Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan are the only countries where pol

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Two officers guarding a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan were shot dead by unidentified assailants, police said on Tuesday , the latest deaths in an ongoing campaign to eradicate the disease.

"Two gunmen hiding near a small water channel opened fire on the policemen from a very close range," senior officer Waqar Ahmad Khan told AFP.The incident happened in Kot Azam, Tank district, close to tribal districts where the military has clashed with militants since 2003. Another conspiracy theory holds that the vaccines contain pig fat and are therefore banned by Muslims.

 

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