Pakistani Taliban kill police officer a day after calling off truce

PESHAWAR - A Pakistani police officer was shot dead and another officer was hurt while guarding a polio vaccination team on Saturday, police said, in an attack claimed by the local Taliban a day after they called off a ceasefire with the government.

"The gunmen opened fire indiscriminately, killing one policeman on the spot and wounding another," district police officer Sajjad Khan told AFP. The Taliban claimed the latest attack and put the death toll at two, according to a statement from spokesman Muhammad Khurasani.The Pakistani Taliban, a separate movement from Afghanistan's new leaders but which shares a common history, plunged Pakistan into a period of horrific violence after forming in 2007.

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