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A constabulary officer, who was guarding an anti-polio vaccination team, was gunned down Wednesday (October 15, 2025) by unidentified assailants successful Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said.
The anti-polio vaccination squad was targeted successful the Kahai colony of Nizampur successful Nowshera district, constabulary said.
This is the 2nd such incidental successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa successful the past 24 hours.
The 35-year-old constabulary serviceman was connected work with the polio vaccination squad erstwhile helium was attacked.
Following the incident, constabulary cordoned disconnected the country and launched a hunt cognition to apprehend the assailants, who managed to fly the scene.
In a akin attack, a information authoritative guarding a polio vaccination squad was killed by unidentified gunmen successful the Arkot country of the Swat territory connected Tuesday (October 14).
Attacks connected polio vaccination teams and their information unit person been a persistent situation successful Pakistan, peculiarly successful the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Militant groups often reason the vaccination drives, spreading misinformation that the vaccine is simply a Western conspiracy.
Pakistan is 1 of the past 2 countries successful the world, too Afghanistan, wherever polio remains endemic.
Despite planetary efforts to eradicate the virus, challenges specified arsenic information issues, vaccine hesitancy, and misinformation stay successful eliminating the virus.
