Pakistan deadly bomb targets Peshawar polio campaign
Two people, one a police officer, have been killed by a bomb which went off near anti-polio campaigners in Pakistan, say police. The blast struck a van near a hospital in Budh Bher suburb of the north-western city of Peshawar. A death toll of six was given earlier but later corrected by police. Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, due in part to militant resistance to polio mass vaccination campaigns. Militants have attacked and killed health...
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