Information About Incident 67924-139043-352846 in Bhittani Pakistan

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The police team was being deployed in Budhni area before the start of the campaign when a remote controlled bomb exploded near their van, killing one police official and wounding another one, local senior administration official Zaheerul Islam said.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Budhni, Budhni
• Matched District: Bhittani
• Actgroup: kill, injure
• Actor: < fc > < be > < 8c > < b3 > < a4 > < bc > The police team a remote controlled bomb, < fc > < be > < 8c > < b3 > < a4 > < bc > The police team a remote controlled bomb
• Subject: one police official, another one , < fc > < be > < 8d > < 83 > < a4 > < bc > local senior administration official Zaheerul Islam

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A bomb explosion killed at least one Policeman and wounded another during a vaccination campaign for polio and other diseases in the Budhni area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on February 16, reports The Express Tribune. The police team was being deployed in Budhni area before the start of the campaign when a remote controlled bomb exploded near their van, killing one police official and wounding another one, local senior administration official Zaheerul Islam said. According to the World Health Organisation, Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012. The World Health Organisation has warned that Peshawar was the world s largest reservoir of polio.

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