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Islamabad —  Unknown gunmen killed two police officers in southwestern Pakistan in an attack Tuesday on polio vaccinators. The deadly shooting occurred during a national immunization campaign in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. Area police officer Asif Marwat said that health workers were administering polio doses to children ...

UNICEF-supported female vaccination teams go where men cannot in Afghanistan to protect every child against polio.Two-year-old Abbas receives his oral polio vaccine from Morvarid, a UNICEF-supported vaccinator, during a house-to-house immunization campaign in Afghanistan's Herat Province.© UNICEF/UN0648273/BIDEL More than three decades after UNICEF, Rotary International and other key partners ...

KARACHI, Pakistan From the roofs of inundated mud houses, it was an incredible sight earlier this week to see two polio vaccinators wading through waist-deep rainwaters to deliver vaccines.They were headed to a remote village in northwest Pakistan where their colleagues were engaged in administering jabs to children.Raging floods caused ...

Gunmen kill police guarding a vaccination team in the latest local incident of anti-vaccine violence. Source link

#Pakistan News One person was killed in Takhar province in the far north, and seven in neighbouring Kunduz province, the United Nations said. The Taliban said they had "received the news" of the incidents and were trying to get more information. (AFP) Eight members of polio vaccination teams working ...

Gunmen shot dead a policeman guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan’s northwest on Sunday in the second such killing in two days, police said.The attack in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came a day after two men with the Pakistani Taliban killed a police officer who was guarding ...

KARACHI, PakistanGunmen on Saturday ambushed personnel guarding anti-polio vaccinators in northwest Pakistan, killing one policeman and injuring another, police and health officials said.The incident – the latest in a series of similar attacks in recent years – occurred in the remote Taank district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which ...

The Taliban have denied attacking five health workers who were gunned down at three separate locations on Tuesday. Four other workers were also wounded, with two of them in critical condition. But police spokesman Farid Khan said the Taliban were ‘'targeting health workers to deprive people of polio vaccines." The attack ...

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Officials in conflict-torn Afghanistan said Tuesday gunmen had shot dead at least five polio vaccinators and injured several others in separate attacks in eastern Nangarhar province.   Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where the crippling polio disease remains endemic.  Authorities ...

ISLAMABAD - Unknown gunmen have shot dead three female anti-polio workers in Afghanistan, one of the two countries in the world along with its neighbor Pakistan, where the crippling children’s disease remains endemic. Tuesday’s violence came on the second day of a five-day polio immunization drive, this year’s first ...