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(1 Mar 2014) The funerals were held on Saturday for some of the police officers killed in a bomb blast in northwest Pakistan earlier in the day. Two bombs, minutes apart, struck tribal police assigned to guard polio workers, killing 11 people including a child, police said. The first bomb struck an escort vehicle in the Lashora village of Jamrud tribal region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, wounding six officers, but causing no deaths, according to police. Minutes later, another roadside bomb struck a convoy of tribal police officers dispatched there to transport victims of the first attack, killing 10 officers and one child and wounding six people. The governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shaukat Ullah, said the people killed in the blast were "campaigning to save the lives of our children through (polio) vaccination, so that they (children) do not become handicapped". No one claimed responsibility for the two bombings, but anti-polio teams or their guards have been frequently targeted in Pakistan by Islamic militants, who say the campaigns are a tool for spying and claim the vaccine makes boys sterile. Pakistan is one of the few remaining countries where polio persists. In most cases the disease is found in the northwest, where militants make it difficult to reach children for vaccination. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...