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Gunmen kill a police officer assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan

  • At least 10 police have died this year while on security duty for vaccination campaigns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
  • Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan are regularly marred by violence, with militants claiming campaigns sterilize children
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Suspected militants kill two police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan

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Pakistani officer wounded in attack on polio workers dies, raising bombing death toll to seven

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Kidnappers free two anti-polio vaccinators in Pakistan’s militancy-hit northwest — police

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Gunmen kidnap two polio workers in northwestern Pakistan— police

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Gunmen kill female polio worker in Pakistan vaccination campaign

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