2 Pakistani police officers guarding polio workers killed by suspected militants

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Gunmen suspected of being militants killed two police officers and wounded another as the officers travelled to protect polio vaccination workers in Mohmand district, northwestern Pakistan. The attack occurred during a door-to-door immunization campaign near the Afghan border.

Suspected militants riding a motorcycle shot and killed two police officers assigned to protect polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign on Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. The drive-by shooting in Mohmand, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan, also wounded a third officer. The police officers were travelling to a nearby village to guard vaccination teams when they came under fire, police officer Ayaz Khan said. The attackers fled...