Pakistan, Oct. 16 -- A police constable deployed for the security of a polio team was killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Nowshera district on Wednesday, police said.

The attack comes a day after another Levies constable was shot dead while guarding a polio team in the province's Swat district. The government launched a nationwide polio eradication campaign earlier this week, aiming to vaccinate over 45 million children. A special order was issued for the drive, with the deployment of 285 police personnel across the country to provide security to the vaccination teams.

A statement by Nowshera police spokesperson Turk Ali Shah said that the constable, identified as Maqsood, was killed on the spo...