Polio Attack

• Gunmen kill Pakistani policeman during polio drive

  Gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of female polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks on people working on the UN-backed vaccination campaign, police said.

• Policeman escorting Pakistani polio team killed

  Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer escorting polio workers during a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.

• Pakistan reports ninth death in polio team attacks

  Another victim from attacks on UN-backed anti-polio teams in Pakistan died on Thursday, bringing the three-day death toll in the wave of assaults on volunteers vaccinating children across the country to nine, officials said.

• Three dead in fresh Pakistan polio attacks

  Gunmen killed three people working on a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, as the nationwide drive against the crippling disease suffered a third day of bloodshed.

• Fresh attacks on Pakistan polio workers

  Gunmen opened fire on polio workers in three separate attacks in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, seriously wounding one, officials said, following the killing of six workers.