Khyber Pakhtunkhwa On Tuesday in Orakzai, police said Anti-polio campaign During the attack by unknown persons Polio A policeman guarding the team has died.
According to the AFP news agency, a police officer named Malik Sikander has said that two extremists attacked the police officer who was guarding the polio team, who died on the spot.
According to the police official, ‘Later, a police team chased the two attackers and their local facilitator and killed them too.’
Another police officer named Naveedullah Khan confirmed the incident and said that ‘two polio health workers were safe in the attack because they were inside the house at that time.’
The attack took place at a time when the government in Pakistan started a nationwide campaign to vaccinate 45 million children under five years of age from Monday, October 28.
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In Pakistan, the number of children infected with polio virus has seen a rapid increase compared to the last three years.
In this regard, the anti-polio campaign has said in a statement that this is the third nationwide campaign of Pakistan this year, which has been launched in view of the alarming increase in recent polio cases. This year, 41 cases have been reported in Pakistan so far while 71 districts are affected by polio.
According to the national statistics of the organization, 41 cases of polio have been reported in Pakistan so far this year, of which 21 are in Balochistan, 12 in Sindh, 6 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one case each from Punjab and Islamabad.
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