Two die in attack on Pakistani polio workers

October 07, 2013 - An attack on a team of polio workers in Pakistan has killed two people. Senior superintendent of police operations for Peshawar district, Najeeb ur-Rehman, said a police officer and a member of a volunteer peace committee were killed when a bomb went off near their van on Monday in a suburb of the provincial capital of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan. The earlier reported death toll of 6 was later revised to 2. The dead were supposed to be protecting workers administering anti-polio vaccine to local residents. Militants who oppose the vaccinations often target workers delivering the vaccine and threaten people who want to get their kids vaccinated.