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| Pakistan: Deadly bomb targets Peshawar polio campaign | Pakistan: Deadly bomb targets Peshawar polio campaign |
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| At least six people, including police officers, have been killed by a bomb apparently targeting anti-polio campaigners in Pakistan. | At least six people, including police officers, have been killed by a bomb apparently targeting anti-polio campaigners in Pakistan. |
| The blast struck a van near a hospital in the Budh Bher area of the north-western city of Peshawar. | |
| Militants have previously attacked and killed health workers vaccinating children against the disease. | Militants have previously attacked and killed health workers vaccinating children against the disease. |
| Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, due in part due to resistance from militants. | |
| They have banned vaccination teams from some areas, forcing hundreds of thousands of children to miss vaccinations. | |
| The six killed comprised four police and two members of a local peace committee, riding in a van as part of an anti-polio campaign, said police officials. | |
| Several others are reported to have been injured. | |
| A fake hepatitis vaccination campaign, run covertly by the CIA, helped to locate al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. He was then killed in an operation by US Navy Seals. |