Via The Express Tribune: Police official killed while providing security to polio workers in Peshawar.Excerpt:
A police official was killed and another injured when unidentified men fired at them in Peshawar, Express News reported on Saturday.
The police officials were providing security to the Gulshan Rehman team of polio workers administering the vaccine in the area.
Special police force official Zakir Afridi and Yaqoob were standing by the side of the road when the gunmen reportedly targeted them and drove away after firing.
The injured official, Yaqoob, will be taken to Lady Reading Hospital for treatment.
Gunmen frequently attack polio vaccination workers, accusing them of being Western spies and part of a plot to sterilise Muslims.
Previous attacks
On November 21, 11 teachers were abducted and Khyber official Niaz Ahmed Khan had said the militants who adbucted them may have mistaken them for a polio team that had just left the school after giving polio vaccinations.
They were abducted from Khyber Agency and released on November 25. A tribal elder, speaking on condition of anonymity, had said that the militants freed the teachers on condition the government stop sending polio teams to the area.
