Pak policeman guarding anti-polio workers shot dead

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A policeman who was assigned to guard polio vaccination workers in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen, according to officials.</p>
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The miscreants riding on a motorcycle opened fire at the victim in the Kot Attal Sharif area of Dera Ismail Khan district on Monday, Xinhua news agency quoted a senior police official as saying.</p>
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The policeman was on his way to perform duties with an anti-polio team when he was attacked, said the official, adding that the attackers fled the scene afterwards, and a search operation is underway to arrest the culprits.</p>
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This was the third attack in two days on Pakistani policemen assigned to protect anti-polio workers in the province.</p>
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On Sunday, a police officer, who was returning home after security duty with polio vaccination workers, was killed by unidentified gunmen in Peshawar, the capital of KP province.</p>
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Similarly, another policeman was injured when a roadside bomb hit a police van escorting a polio vaccination team in the Ladha area of South Waziristan district later in the day.</p>
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According to government officials, Pakistan is one of the only two polio-endemic countries in the world along with its neighbour Afghanistan.</p>