PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Attacks on polio teams in Pakistan on Friday killed a polio worker and two policemen assigned to protect one of the teams, police said.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Pakistani militants have killed more than a dozen polio workers and police protecting them over the past year. They claim health workers are spies for Washington and that the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.
In the first attack, two officers were shot in Swabi. Hours later, a polio worker was shot on his way home after vaccinating children in Jamrud.