Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Bomb kills two more anti-polio workers
31 JAN 2013, 8:25 PM - SOURCE: AAP
A roadside bomb has killed another two health workers in Pakistan's tribal region.
A bomb has killed two polio vaccination workers in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, officials say, the latest in a series of such attacks which have now killed 19 in two months.
There has been no claim of responsibility for any of the killings. But the umbrella Taliban faction last year banned polio vaccinations in the tribal region of Waziristan, condemning the campaign as a cover for espionage.
"The two-men team was visiting Mali Khel village in upper Kurram tribal region when an improvised explosive device planted along the roadside went off, killing them on the spot," Jawad Ali, in charge of the campaign in Kurram, told AFP on Thursday.
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1731993/Bomb-kills-two-more-anti-polio-workers
31 JAN 2013, 8:25 PM - SOURCE: AAP
A roadside bomb has killed another two health workers in Pakistan's tribal region.
A bomb has killed two polio vaccination workers in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, officials say, the latest in a series of such attacks which have now killed 19 in two months.
There has been no claim of responsibility for any of the killings. But the umbrella Taliban faction last year banned polio vaccinations in the tribal region of Waziristan, condemning the campaign as a cover for espionage.
"The two-men team was visiting Mali Khel village in upper Kurram tribal region when an improvised explosive device planted along the roadside went off, killing them on the spot," Jawad Ali, in charge of the campaign in Kurram, told AFP on Thursday.
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http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1731993/Bomb-kills-two-more-anti-polio-workers