Pakistan police officer killed in attack by gunmen on a polio vaccine team

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants shot and killed a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks on vaccine teams in the country. The attack took place in the Matta area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, once a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, a day after Pakistan launched a weeklong nationwide vaccination campaign to immunize 45 million children. Local police official Javed Khan said a team of female polio workers was administering drops to children in a house when “terrorists riding on a motorcycle opened fire" and killed the officer. He said that a search operation was underway to locate and apprehend the assailants. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the assault in a state