Suicide bomber attacks Pakistan police guarding polio vaccination team, kills four


Police officers in civilian clothes survey the aftermath of a suicide bomb blast on a police patrol in Quetta, Pakistan, November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a police escort for a polio vaccination team in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding more than 30, police said, just two days after the militants ended a ceasefire.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack near the city of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, in a statement received by Reuters.

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