[image: Two cops, polio vaccinator shot dead in Pakistan’s North Waziristan]
PESHAWAR – Three people were killed after a team of anti-polio vaccinatorswas ambushed in Datta Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s tribal district ofNorth Waziristan, which has been a hotbed of poliovirus this year.
The incident happened a day after Pakistan launched a nationwide anti-poliovaccination drive to inoculate 12.6 million children.
The campaign was launched amid an outbreak of the virus in North Waziristanwhere 11 cases of the disease has surfaced this year as several parents arereluctant to inoculate their children against the virus.
The polio team was administrating the vaccine to children in door-to-doordrive when unknown men opened fire on them, leaving two policemen and avaccinator dead on the spot. A child also sustained bullet injury duringthe incident.
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The martyred police officials have been identified as Deen Shahid and Raza.
The bodies and injured have been shifted to hospital while police havelaunched an investigation into the matter.
