<p>Peshawar: At least six people, including three policemen, were injured in a bomb explosion that targeted a vehicle carrying workers associated with the Pakistan Polio Programme in the country’s restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said on Monday.</p>.<p>The explosion resulted in injuries to three frontline polio workers and three policemen in South Waziristan district’s Wana town. The injured were immediately shifted to a hospital and their condition is stated to be stable.</p>.<p>Police contingents rushed to the explosion site and launched a combing operation to arrest the accused.</p>.Two Pakistan policemen killed in attack by militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<p>Authorities in Pakistan last week reported its first polio case in the capital Islamabad in the last 16 years, a setback to the national efforts aimed at eradicating the crippling virus from the country.</p>.<p>The country came close to achieving zero poliovirus cases in 2021 when only one infection was reported.</p>.<p>So far this year, 12 cases have been reported from Balochistan, three from Sindh, and one from Punjab and Islamabad each.</p>.<p>Separately in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a suicide vest was thrown by two motorcyclists when they were signalled to stop by police at Jameel Chowk, Ring Road. A bomb disposal squad has been called to defuse the jacket that has seven kilograms of explosives.</p>
<p>Peshawar: At least six people, including three policemen, were injured in a bomb explosion that targeted a vehicle carrying workers associated with the Pakistan Polio Programme in the country’s restive northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said on Monday.</p>.<p>The explosion resulted in injuries to three frontline polio workers and three policemen in South Waziristan district’s Wana town. The injured were immediately shifted to a hospital and their condition is stated to be stable.</p>.<p>Police contingents rushed to the explosion site and launched a combing operation to arrest the accused.</p>.Two Pakistan policemen killed in attack by militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<p>Authorities in Pakistan last week reported its first polio case in the capital Islamabad in the last 16 years, a setback to the national efforts aimed at eradicating the crippling virus from the country.</p>.<p>The country came close to achieving zero poliovirus cases in 2021 when only one infection was reported.</p>.<p>So far this year, 12 cases have been reported from Balochistan, three from Sindh, and one from Punjab and Islamabad each.</p>.<p>Separately in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a suicide vest was thrown by two motorcyclists when they were signalled to stop by police at Jameel Chowk, Ring Road. A bomb disposal squad has been called to defuse the jacket that has seven kilograms of explosives.</p>