A police officer stands guard as a health worker (left) marks a finger of a child after administering a polio vaccine at a neighborhood in Peshawar, Pakistan, on May 26, 2025. - AP file
PESHAWAR, (Pakistan): Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed a police officer guarding polio vaccinators on Tuesday (Oct 14), police said, on the second day of a nationwide campaign to counter rising cases.
Pakistan is one of two countries, along with Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic but militants have killed hundreds of police officers and health workers over the past decade as part of a campaign against the Pakistani state.
