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Official says roadside bomb kills 2 more polio workers in northwestern Pakistan

Associated Press
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    A Pakistani police officer, left, stands guard while health worker Shahida Akram, 41, prepares polio vaccines to be given for children in a neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining places where polio is still rampant. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (The Associated Press)

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    Pakistani health worker Shahida Akram, 41, right, gives a polio vaccine to a boy, in a neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining places where polio is still rampant. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (The Associated Press)

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    Pakistani health worker Irba Allahdad, 23, right, marks a wall of a home after giving a child living there a polio vaccine, in a neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Some Islamic militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining places where polio is still rampant. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (The Associated Press)

PARACHINAR, Pakistan – Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb has killed two polio workers in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border.

Government administrator Yousuf Rahim says the men were going to a village to vaccinate children when the bomb hit their motorcycle in Kurram tribal region on Thursday.

Although it's unclear whether the workers were the actual target, it was the second attack this week against polio workers. On Tuesday, gunmen riding on a motorcycle killed a policeman protecting a polio vaccination team.

Pakistan is one of three countries where the crippling disease is endemic.

Suspicion for the attacks falls on Islamic militants, who oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.