Two policemen were killed in a gun attack in Mardan s Rustam tehsil on Wednesday, the police said. They were returning after security duty with a team of anti-polio vaccinators, according to the police. The deceased policemen were identified as Syed Ali Raza and Shakir. A heavy contingent of police reached the site. The area was cordoned off and a search was on for the perpetrators. In January, a policeman was killed in attack targeting anti-polio vaccinators in Karak. The vaccinators remained unhurt in the attack. Pakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic. Attempts to stamp it out have been badly hit by opposition from militants and attacks on i.
Policeman killed in Karak attack
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A policeman was killed after unidentified men attacked a polio team in a village in Karak Tuesday morning.
The polio team remained safe during the attack and have been shifted to a secure place, the police said. The policeman was driving a motorcycle as the polio workers were giving polio drops to the children.
2021-01-12 12:35:49 GMT2021-01-12 20:35:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) A policeman escorting a polio vaccination team was shot dead in Pakistan s northwest district of Karak on Tuesday, the latest attack on efforts to protect children from the crippling disease, said officials.
District Police Officer of Karak Irfanullah told local media that unknown gunmen riding motorcycles opened fire on the cop providing security to the polio workers in the Takht-e-Nasrati area of Karak, a district in the country s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.
The polio vaccination team remained unhurt in the attack, said the official, adding that the polio vaccination drive has been stopped in the area after the incident.
Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication and Immunization (
Bullo, Mehraj, Raza, Rasool, Ansari, Shaikh, Phul, Memon, R.I. Baloch, Chandio); Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, or SZABIST (
Mehraj); United Nations Children s Fund, or UNICEF (
Raza, Chandio); National Stop Transmission of Polio (N-STOP) Program (
Rasool, Phul, Memon); Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (
Shaikh); Expanded Programon Immunization, or EPI (
Z.A. Baloch) Social mobilization is one of the key strategies to enhance community awareness regarding the IPV campaign. In polio-endemic Pakistan, inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) is being used to increase population immunity in advance of withdrawal of oral polio vaccine (OPV), to eradicate remaining wild polio virus, and to respond to any outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus. This study analysed the impact of the needle-free device PharmaJet Tropis ID on vaccination status in fractional dose of IPV (fIPV) and full