Anti-polio campaign suspended in Pakistan

2012-12-19 49

The World Health Organisation and UNICEF have suspended a polio vaccination campaign throughout the whole of Pakistan, after two more workers were shot dead and a third was wounded.

Eight health workers have now died since Monday, most of them in Karachi.

The campaign has been opposed by extremists, including Taliban militants.

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