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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

ASIA | In the Northwest Pakistan murdered a policeman who protected a campaign against polio


One policeman was killed and one was injured employee health in an attack by armed men on Tuesday against a vaccination campaign against polio in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, a police source said. The incident, which is added to a recent wave of attacks against that campaign workers, occurred shortly before noon local area Gula Ada Swabi district, where they moved two assailants on a motorcycle shot the victims. According to the police source consulted by Efe, the health officer was hospitalized after being wounded but got discharged. Last December, nine workers of the vaccination campaign against polio were killed in different parts of northwest and southern Pakistan in an interval of 48 hours, a string of attacks that was then attributed to the Taliban insurgency. Although the Taliban claimed responsibility for those actions armed groups allied to them based on the volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan in the summer had threatened to attack the vaccinators. Pakistan is the only country with Afghanistan and Nigeria where polio is still endemic and local authorities together with international agencies made ​​a major effort to immunize all children under five in the country. According to the agency, which coordinates the fight against this disease, each year there are four national campaign lasting several days in receiving the vaccine about 34 million children.

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