Gunmen kill two female polio workers in Quetta

By Web Desk
January 18, 2018

QUETTA: Gunmen on Thursday shot dead two women polio workers on Zarghoon Road who were taking part in anti-polio drive , police said.

According to the police, the motorcycle riding gunmen targeted a team of health workers at a flyover, killing one worker and injuring another.

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The inured worker succumbed to her injuries later.

The bodies were shifted to near by hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Identities of the deceased were not immediately known.

Scores of polio workers have been killed in the past few years in different parts of the country .

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