PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb hit a car carrying officers assigned to guard well being staff conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, wounding six officers and three civilians, officers stated.
No polio staff have been damage within the assault in South Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, native police official Tahrir Sarfraz stated.
He stated nobody has claimed duty for the assault, which apparently focused police.
Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan are usually marred by violence. Militants goal vaccination groups and police assigned to guard them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize kids.
The newest assault got here hours after Pakistan launched a drive to vaccinate 30 million kids in opposition to polio. Since January, Pakistan has reported 17 new instances, jeopardizing a long time of efforts to eradicate polio within the nation.
Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the one international locations wherein the unfold of polio has by no means been stopped.
The possibly deadly, paralyzing illness largely strikes kids beneath age 5 and usually spreads via contaminated water.
No polio staff have been damage within the assault in South Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, native police official Tahrir Sarfraz stated.
He stated nobody has claimed duty for the assault, which apparently focused police.
Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan are usually marred by violence. Militants goal vaccination groups and police assigned to guard them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize kids.
The newest assault got here hours after Pakistan launched a drive to vaccinate 30 million kids in opposition to polio. Since January, Pakistan has reported 17 new instances, jeopardizing a long time of efforts to eradicate polio within the nation.
Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan are the one international locations wherein the unfold of polio has by no means been stopped.
The possibly deadly, paralyzing illness largely strikes kids beneath age 5 and usually spreads via contaminated water.