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| Subject: Militant Pakistani animals kill polio vaccination workers Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:54 pm | |
| Gunmen have shot dead five health workers in Pakistan at the start of a polio vaccination drive, in a spree of apparently co-ordinated attacks on the nationwide medical campaign.
Officials were forced to halt the three-day vaccination programme in Karachi after four women were shot dead in the city in less than an hour.
The assassinations follow a Taliban ban on immunisations in the tribal region of Waziristan. The militants say the ban is in protest against drone strikes and also allege that the immunisation campaign is a cover for spying.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/militants-kill-polio-vaccination-workers-20121219-2blsh.html#ixzz2FTER4Rft
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