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Gunmen kill two polio workers in Gadoon
[Pak Daily Times] Gunmen on a cycle of violence rubbed out two health workers during an anti-polio...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drive in Swabi District on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of deadly attacks on vaccination teams. The killings took place in the town of Gadoon, some 120 kilometres east of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. where door-to-door vaccinations were taking place since Saturday. "Gunmen on a cycle of violence rubbed out two health workers who were administering anti-polio drops to children in the area," district police chief Mian Saeed told AFP. The victims, both male, had refused to take security personnel along, he added. The three-day anti-polio vaccination was inaugurated on Friday. Swabi police chief Dr Mian Muhammad Saeed said that the two male polio vaccinators were attacked by the two gunnies in the Kandaro Banda, (Pabbini village). Both were killed on the spot. "We have nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! four suspected persons and investigations are underway to know more details," he said. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-17 |
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