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Attack on health centre in north-west Pakistan kills police officer

MILITANTS attacked a health centre used in an ongoing anti-polio campaign in north-west Pakistan today, triggering a gun battle that left a police officer dead. 

Three of the attackers were also killed in the exchange.

No-one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Orakzai, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban.

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