Gunmen kill seven police guarding polio team in Pakistan
Source: AFP
Gunmen on motorcycles on Wednesday shot dead seven policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's southern port city Karachi, officials said, a brazen attack in the country's economic hub.
Feroz Shah, a senior police official told AFP that eight gunmen carried out the killings in two separate attacks in the city's western Orangi Town neighbourhood.
"The gunmen first opened fire on three policemen in the streets of Orangi Town, killing them all," he said, adding: "Later they shot dead four policemen, who were sitting in a police mobile van" a few streets away.
Abdul Kareem, an official in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the bodies were taken, also confirmed the casualties.
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Because I can't think of any other reason.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,347 posts)The strategy for eradicating polio is complex; this is partly because oral vaccines can be excreted, and then they have a limited ability to evolve and cause a few infections:
https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/18/polio-vaccine-the-switch/
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)have been shot dead by islamists.
AllyCat
(16,211 posts)Polio vaccinators??
Coventina
(27,159 posts)Good gracious!
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)FM451
(18 posts)I remember reading a while back that U.S. backed vaccination programs are viewed with great suspicion in parts of Africa and Asia, in that they could be a screen for espionage activity. Also, that the vaccinations could contain some kind of poison. Or, as in Pakistan, be against Islamic beliefs. The article below is of interest.
Sounds like a problem we have right here.
Read: [link:https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-pakistani-talibans-campaign-against-polio-vaccination|