Another officer was wounded when militants opened fire on their vehicle near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while four officers were abducted in a separate incident.
Key takeaways
Two Pakistani police officers were killed by gunmen near the Afghan border while guarding polio workers, though no vaccination staff were present in the vehicle. In a separate incident, four officers were abducted in Tank district while en route to secure a vaccination team.
- Gunmen attacked a police vehicle in Mohmand district, killing two officers without specifying the responsible group.
- Four police officers were abducted in Tank district while traveling to provide security for a polio vaccination team.
- Pakistan and Afghanistan remain the only countries where polio is endemic, with militants targeting health workers for a decade.
Summarised automatically by AI from the original article by Free Malaysia Today. AI can make mistakes, so check the original for details.
A police officer stands guard as healthcare workers administer polio drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Peshawar. (AFP pic)PESHAWAR: Gunmen attacked a police vehicle assigned to protect a polio vaccination team, killing two officers and wounding another in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, a police official told AFP.
Militants opened fire on the officers' vehicle while it was travelling near the Afghan border in Mohmand district, police official Ali Rehman Khan said, without specifying which group they believed was behind the attack.
"Two police personnel were martyred and another was injured in the attack.
"However, no polio vaccination staff were present in the police vehicle," he said.
%2Ffile%2Fpublisher-c1a3f893382d2b2f8a9aa22a654d9c97%2F2025%2F06%2Fd0df84233743e74648966134aa684811.jpg&w=480&output=webp&q=85&we)
