gunmen attack polio vaccination team in pakistan
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Gunmen attack polio vaccination team in Pakistan

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A child receives polio vaccine drops at a vaccination centre in Karachi, Pakistan
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A child receives polio vaccine drops at a vaccination centre in Karachi, Pakistan Gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in one of Pakistan's restive tribal regions on Monday, killing a policeman who was providing security, officials said. The attackers opened fire as the team was going to administer polio drops in Kalam town in Bajaur district, one of the seven tribal areas along the Afghan border, local administration official Suhail Ahmed Khan said.
"One tribal police official, who had been escorting the team, died in the attack," he told AFP.
There was no immediate report of any other casualties, he said, adding that the attackers managed to escape. A security official also confirmed the death.
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only countries where polio is endemic. Polio cases in Pakistan hit 198 in 2011, the highest figure for more than a decade and the most of any country in the world, according to the UN.
Kalam is barely two kilometres from the Afghan border. Pakistan's tribal areas are a haven for Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants.
Health officials said the campaign involved some 624 teams working to inoculate 223,570 children under five years of age against the crippling disease in Bajaur.
No female worker is participating in the vaccination campaign after attacks on polio teams across the country over the past few months killed more than 20 people.
No one has claimed responsibility for the killings. But last year Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the umbrella Taliban faction, banned polio vaccinations in the tribal region of Waziristan, alleging the campaign was a cover for espionage.
Rumours about vaccines being a plot to sterilise Muslims have also dogged efforts to tackle the highly infectious disease.
In December gunmen killed nine health workers carrying out polio vaccinations in Karachi and the northwest.
 

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