Karachi polio killings: Vaccination workers shot.

Four female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been shot dead in the country's largest city Karachi, police say.

The victims were reportedly working with a UN-backed programme to eradicate polio, which is endemic in Pakistan.

No group has said it carried out the shootings, but the Taliban have issued threats against the polio drive and are active in parts of Karachi. 

 

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Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist.

Dorothea Nutzhorn (Lange) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 26th May, 1895. At the age of seven, Dorothea contracted polio which left her with a permanent limp. After her German born father abandoned the family, Dorothea assumed her mother's maiden name.

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Nigeria. New Case Of Type-one Wild Polio Reported In Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Two years after the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded its last case of wild polio virus in Dobi village, Gwagwalada Area Council, a new case of the virus and another suspected case was yesterday recorded in Jahi village, a community in the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC).

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School heroes’ to take up anti-polio initiative in KP.

PESHAWAR, Dec 13: The government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund has launched “School Heroes Initiative” programme in high-risk districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to formally enlist support of teachers and students in polio campaigns to eradicate the vaccine-preventable childhood ailment. 

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Tragic death of the Afghan girl who just wanted to change her country: Student shot dead as she helped in fight against polio.

A student and polio volunteer has been shot dead by armed men in a rural Afghan village.

The brutal killing has raised questions about women's safety in the region, with reports suggesting that females are too scared to attend school or work following the murder.

The girl, known only as Anisa, was shot outside her home in Afghanistan's Kapisa province, having survived an attack only a day before.

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