PESHAWAR: A bomb hit a police van protecting a polio vaccination team in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing two people and wounding 12 others, police said.

The attack took place on the third and last day of a United Nations-backed vaccination campaign in a suburb of the city of Peshawar, police said, adding that a policeman was among the two dead.

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