kaboom!outside a 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...
vaccination centre in the south-western city of Quetta yesterday, killing at least 15 people, mainly coppers, officials said.
The coppers had gathered outside the centre to accompany workers on the third day of a polio vaccination campaign in the violence-racked province of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, of which Quetta is the capital. Polio vaccination teams are frequently targeted by murderous Moslem attacks in Pakistain.
"There are 15 dead, including 12 police, one paramilitary, and two civilians," a local police official said.
Mr Sarfaraz Bugti, Balochistan Home Minister, added: "So far 15 people have been injured in the blast, seven of whom are at death's door."
Militant group Jundullah, which has links with the Pak Taliban and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
in Iraq and Syria, grabbed credit for the attack.
An Agence La Belle France-Presse news hound at the site saw three burnt-out vehicles. Human remains lay strewn across the ground, walls and electric poles along with items of clothing, including the caps and shoes of coppers.
Eye-witness Shabir Ahmed, a 32-year-old police constable, said he had been deployed to protect a polio vaccination team that was due to leave for various neighbourhoods of Quetta at 10am.
"Suddenly there was a loud bang and I fell to the ground; I could not see anything, there was dust everywhere," he said.
"Then I heard people screaming and sirens of ambulances," he continued, adding he had shrapnel wounds on his stomach, hands, legs and feet.
Pakistain is one of only two countries where polio, a crippling childhood disease, remains endemic. The other country is Afghanistan.