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Suspected militants open fire and kill 2 police officers guarding polio workers in Pakistan · Best of: Features

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  Suspected militants opened fire and killed two police officers guarding polio workers
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  in Pakistan. This article is being read by an automated voice generated
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  by Everlet. Peshawar, Pakistan, the AP, suspected militants riding
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  a motorcycle shot and killed two police officers assigned to protect polio
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  workers during a door to door vaccination campaign Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan,
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  officials said.
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  The drive by shooting in Momond, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
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  that borders Afghanistan, also wounded a third officer. The police officers were
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  traveling to a nearby village to guard vaccination teams when they came
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  under fire, police officer Ayaz Khan said the attackers fled the scene.
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  No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The Pakistani Taliban and
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  other militant groups regularly target anti polio drives and police protecting health
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  workers, falsely claiming that polio vaccination campaigns are part of a Western
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  conspiracy to sterilize children. In Islamabad, Pakistan's Interior Minister Mosin Nakvi
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  said the attack was intolerable and offered his condolences to the families
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  of the killed officers, who he said worked for a healthier future
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  for the country. Separately, suspected militants the previous day abducted four polio
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  workers in Tank, another district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to a statement
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  from Provincial Governor Faisal Karim Kundi. He condemned the abductions and urged
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  authorities to take immediate steps to secure the workers safe release as
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  soon as possible. Pakistan began a nationwide campaign Monday to vaccinate 24
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  million children against polio as part of efforts to eradicate the disease.
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  Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only countries where wild poliovirus is
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  endemic, according to the World Health Organization.