{"id":32987,"date":"2013-01-29T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32987"},"modified":"2013-01-29T11:56:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:56:52","slug":"fresh-attack-on-polio-vaccination-team-in-pakistan-cop-killed-32987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/fresh-attack-on-polio-vaccination-team-in-pakistan-cop-killed-32987\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh attack on polio vaccination team in Pakistan, cop killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32996\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32996 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Polioworkers-Nationalturk-29-559x360.jpg\" alt=\"Protest against attacks on female polio workers in Pakistan: File Pic\" width=\"391\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Polioworkers-Nationalturk-29-559x360.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Polioworkers-Nationalturk-29-280x180.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Polioworkers-Nationalturk-29.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protest against attacks on female polio workers in Pakistan: File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a fresh attack on health workers in Pakistan, unknown gunmen attacked polio immunization team in Pakistan\u2019s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province\u2019s Swabi district, killing a policeman.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, Jan 29: A polio immunization team was attacked by unknown assailants in Pakistan\u2019s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province\u2019s Swabi district, killing a policeman.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s newspaper, Dawn quoted police officer as saying that unknown assailants attacked a polio vaccination team at Gullu Dheri area of Swabi \u00a0in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with sophisticated weapons. \u201cA policeman was critically injured in the attack. He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The police officer said two female health workers, who also were part of anti-polio team were unhurt in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He said a massive manhunt has been launched to track down the attackers, who were two in number and boarding a motorbike.<\/p>\n<h2>Emergency meeting to be convened<\/h2>\n<p>A top health official said 538 teams comprising 754 female health workers were operating for eradication of the polio in the country. \u201cEach team was escorted by a policeman\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said after the fresh attack, an emergency meeting will be convened to discuss future of the three-day immunisation campaign, which was in progress from Jan 28. \u201cIt was supposed to end on January 30 (tomorrow).<\/p>\n<p>Police officials suspect that attack might have been carried out by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants. The outfit had owned responsibility of previous attacks on health workers \u00a0in country.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention here that nine polio workers were killed in a series of attacks across Pakistan in December 2012. These attacks prompted authorities to suspend anti-polio immunization drive in militancy hit areas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faiz Ahmad \/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<h1><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fresh attack on health workers in Pakistan, unknown gunmen attacked polio immunization team in Pakistan\u2019s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province\u2019s Swabi district, killing a policeman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,85,101,14],"tags":[44620,42075,44625,39107,44626,44627,44619,44617,44629,44612,44613,43273,42474,44623,44622,44630,636,44611,44628,41433,44616,44618,44614,44624,44621],"class_list":["post-32987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-media-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-anti-polio-team","tag-assailants","tag-attackers","tag-dawn","tag-eradication","tag-escorted","tag-female-health-workers","tag-gullu-dheri","tag-immunization-drive","tag-immunization-team","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-province","tag-killing","tag-launched","tag-manhunt","tag-massive","tag-militancy-hit-areas","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-polio","tag-policeman-tehreek-e-taliban-pakistan","tag-polio","tag-polio-vaccination","tag-sophisticated-weapons","tag-swabi","tag-track-down","tag-unhurt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}