Pakistani police said today that gunmen killed a police officer who was accompanying medical personnel during a polio vaccination campaign.
The attack took place in northwest Pakistan, a day after parents of several hundred school children went to hospitals complaining that their children were feeling sick after receiving the polio vaccine.
Officials said that the panic among parents followed rumors that a large number of children fell ill after receiving vaccines. It is added that the arrested person is suspected of spreading that rumor.
According to authorities, no vaccinated children have become ill from the vaccine.
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