Die a policeman in an attack on a post polio vaccination

A policeman has been killed in an attack by two gunmen today a vaccination against polio in the town of Mardan, in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, according to a police source reported. The incident occurred shortly after noon local time when two unidentified men on board a motorcycle shot at the officer , who watched as two vaccinators were in a house in the area Ghalla Dar, a police official said. This attack is part of a series of attacks against vaccination teams in less than two months has cost the lives of fifteen people in various parts of Pakistan, especially in northwest China. Two vaccinators died less than a month ago by a bomb in its path in the northwestern part of Khurram, and two days before a police officer died in circumstances similar to those of today in the nearby district of Swabi. Although the Taliban have not claimed the actions against the vaccination campaign, affinity groups them based in the volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan in the summer had threatened to attack health workers . Pakistan is the only country with Afghanistan and Nigeria where polio is still endemic and local authorities together with international agencies made ​​a major effort to immunize all children under five in the country. According to the agency, which coordinates the fight against this disease, each year there are four national campaigns of several days 'duration in the vaccine recipients about 34 million children.