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Peshawar: A policeman was killed and two others wounded on Tuesday by a roadside bomb aimed at polio vaccination workers in Pakistan’s restive northwest, officials said.
The attack came a day after Islamabad launched a nationwide anti-polio drive, aiming to immunise tens of millions of children in Pakistan -- one of only three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the crippling disease remains endemic.
Opposition to inoculations grew after the CIA organised a fake vaccination drive to help track down Al Qaeda’s former leader Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. (AFP)
The attack came a day after Islamabad launched a nationwide anti-polio drive, aiming to immunise tens of millions of children in Pakistan -- one of only three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the crippling disease remains endemic.
Opposition to inoculations grew after the CIA organised a fake vaccination drive to help track down Al Qaeda’s former leader Osama Bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. (AFP)
