KHAR, Pakistan: Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire Wednesday on police escorting a team of polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan, killing an officer and a polio worker, police said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Bajur, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, according to local police chief Abdul Aziz.
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi issued a statement condemning the attack.
Pakistan on Monday launched a nationwide polio campaign amid a spike in militant attacks. The potentially fatal, paralyzing disease mostly strikes children under age 5 and typically spreads through contaminated water.
That same day, a roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting polio immunization in the northwestern South Waziristan district, in the same province, wounding six officers and three civilians.
The militant Daesh group later claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.
Anti-polio campaigns in Pakistan are regularly marred by violence. Militants target vaccination teams and police assigned to protect them, falsely claiming that the campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilize children.
Since January, Pakistan has reported 17 new cases of polio, jeopardizing decades of efforts to eliminate polio in the country. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries in which the spread of polio has never been stopped.
Gunmen kill a polio worker during a vaccination campaign in Pakistan
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Gunmen kill a polio worker during a vaccination campaign in Pakistan
- Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi issued a statement condemning the attack
- No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Bajur
German police search Deutsche Bank sites in money laundering probe
- Money laundering lapses have cropped up at Germany’s largest lender over the years
- Prosecutors said they were investigating as-yet unidentified individuals and bank employees
FRANKFURT: German federal police searched Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin on Wednesday in an investigation related to money laundering, Frankfurt prosecutors said.
Money laundering lapses have cropped up at Germany’s largest lender over the years, prompting scrutiny from regulators, fines and police raids.
Prosecutors said they were investigating as-yet unidentified individuals and bank employees.
“In the past, Deutsche Bank maintained business relationships with foreign companies which, in the course of further investigations, are themselves suspected of having been used for money laundering purposes,” prosecutors said in an emailed statement.
Deutsche Bank confirmed the searches, but declined further comment.
“The bank is cooperating fully with the public prosecutor’s office,” it said.
The bank’s shares were 3 percent lower in mid-afternoon trade.
Two people with knowledge of the matter said the case involved transactions between 2013 and 2018. Prosecutors declined to comment on the time frame.
The searches come a day before Deutsche Bank is due to report its 2025 results, which could show its biggest net profit since 2007 if consensus forecasts are correct.
Prosecutors said they could not comment on the background of the business relationships, the transactions that passed through Deutsche Bank, their scope, nor the companies involved.
