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The Taliban is believed to be behind an attack on foreign aid workers that left nine dead in northern Afghanistan. Nathan Frandino reports.
A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, according to officials. A senior government official in Bajaur district says at least 20 others were wounded. IMAGES
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, meets with military personnel and blast victims in Peshawar, where an attack at a mosque in a police headquarters killed at least 47 worshippers and wounded a further 150, with a number of police officers among the dead. The government has put Pakistan on high alert as a frantic rescue operation continues at the blast site. IMAGES
Images show emergency workers and members of the public working through the rubble after a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistani police headquarters on Monday. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 150 more, with police officers counted among those dead. The incident has prompted the government to put the country on high alert. IMAGES
Jalalabad, Jun 15 (EFE/EPA).- Militants killed five health workers and wounded four in a series of attacks on anti-polio teams in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.The officials said the attacks took place in Surkhrod and Khogyani districts and Jalalabad city of the volatile province a day after the national immunization campaign against the virus kicked off in the country.Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, said the gunmen attacked health workers during “their life-saving work” in five locations in Nangarhar province. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE HELP TRANSFER THE BODY OF ONE OF THE POLIO VACCINATION WORKERS WHO WAS KILLED IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).