{"id":3328,"date":"2014-01-22T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T06:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2014-01-22T06:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T06:50:23","slug":"polio-security-team-attacked-in-charsadda-seven-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/01\/22\/3328\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio security team attacked in Charsadda; seven dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/charsaddah.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>At least seven people were killed and nine others were injured in an explosion near a police mobile van which was on its way for security duty for polio immunisation workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Charsadda district on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The dead included six policemen and a bystander child. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Charsadda police control room confirmed that the police van was attacked in Sardheri bazaar as it was on its way for security duty for an immunisation team. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The police mobile van was destroyed in the blast. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deputy Inspector General of Police Mardan Range Saeed Wazir said that the bomb, weighing four to five kilograms, was planted on a cycle. He added that the IED was remotely detonated and left six police officials and a child dead. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The injured have been shifted to District Hospital Charsadda for treatment. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Tuesday, three health workers were killed in an attack on a polio vaccination team in Karachi. After the attack in Karachi, the latest in a series of deadly assaults on vaccination teams, the provincial polio workers&#8217; association said it was halting operations across Sindh province.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The attacks came just days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned that Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern city of Peshawar was the world&#8217;s \u201clargest reservoir\u201d of the polio virus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. Efforts to eradicate it have been seriously hampered by the deadly targeting of vaccination teams in recent years.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Militant groups see vaccination campaigns as a cover for espionage, and there are also long running rumours about polio drops causing infertility.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the WHO, Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year compared with 58 in 2012. So far, four new polio cases have been recorded in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Dawn News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven people were killed and nine others were injured in an explosion near a police mobile van which was on its way for security duty for polio immunisation workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa&#8217;s Charsadda district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Polio security team attacked in Charsadda; 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