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Attack on health centre in north-west Pakistan kills police officer
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a boy at a local Madrassa, at a neighbourhood of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, October 29, 2024
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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