Peshawar: A policeman performing a security duty with anti-polio campaigners was gunned down in Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.
Police sources said that unidentified armed men riding on motorcycle attacked opened indiscriminate firing over the campaigners and fled away. Resultantly, a policeman performing the security duty with the campaigners was killed.
Police rushed at the spot and shifted the body to District Headquarter Hospital Swabi.
After a delay of two weeks due to security concerns, a three-day anti-polio campaign under the sub-national immunization day kicked-off in Islamabad on Monday.
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