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vaccination team near here on Tuesday.
The area where the blast took place is about 9km from here and situated along Charsadda Road, which has witnessed a spike in krazed killer activities over the past few months.
A police official told Dawn that there were two blasts in the area.
The first kaboom occurred in the Mewra locality near a roadblock set up by the police for random checking to provide security to polio teams working in the area.
The kaboom caused injuries to coppers Mohammad Nazir and Mian Liaqat Jan.
They were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital where the former died.
The other blast took place when personnel of the Bomb Disposal Unit were clearing the area, the official said. Policeman Mohammad Zubair sustained injuries in this attack.
SP Bilal Furqan said that he was overseeing security arrangements in the area when one of the blasts occurred, "just moments after my vehicle passed the area".
"Perhaps the assailants intended to hit my vehicle but the device did not go off when my vehicle was in its range because of a jammer installed in the automobile," he added.
Polio worker gunned down in Khyber Wednesday
[Dawn] A member of an anti-polio vaccination team worker was gunned down in Khyber Agency on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.
The incident took place in Jamrud Tehsil where unidentified gunmen fired shots at a polio vaccinator, sources said.
The injured worker, Fazal Amin, was shifted in critical condition to Hayatabad Medical Complex where he succumbed to his injuries.
A policeman was killed and two others suffered injuries when an explosion hit a police party providing security to a polio vaccination team near Peshawar on Tuesday.
Polio vaccination drives are underway across Pakistan, one of only two polio endemic countries left in the world.
Last year, the number of polio cases recorded in Pakistan soared to 306, the highest in 14 years. Pakistan has, however, witnessed a 62 per cent drop in polio cases in 2016, according to the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS).
Attempts to eradicate polio have been badly hit by militant attacks on immunisation teams due to claims propagated by the Taliban that the vaccination drive is a front for espionage or a conspiracy to sterilise Muslims.
These rumours have also made inhabitants of lesser-developed parts of the country more wary of allowing immunisation.
The Taliban stepped up attacks targeting polio immunisation teams after Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to set up a hepatitis immunisation drive as part of efforts to track down Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.