7 police officers killed while protecting vaccination workers in Pakistan

Seven police officers were killed while protecting health workers who were vaccinating children against polio in the Pakistani city of Karachi, authorities said. Eight militants on four motorcycles opened fire on officers who had stopped for food and then shot at a convoy protecting the health workers, police inspector general Feroz Shah said. Speaking at a news conference, Ad Khawaja, the police chief for Sindh Province, said authorities had identified ...