Blast near vaccination center kills 4 in Pakistan

[onionkiller]

Blast near Peshawar kills four,
several injured
ZAHIR SHAH SHERAZI
Published at
2013-10-07 08:40:27
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PESHAWAR: At least four people
were kileld and several others were
injured in an explosion on Monday
near a medical facility in Bazid Khel
village of Budh Bher's Mali Khel
area in the outskirts of Peshawar.
Police sources said that goods
related to an anti-polio campaign
were being distributed at a small
medical facility in Bazid Khel area
when the explosion occurred.
Security and rescue teams reached
the site of incident.
The casualties, including a number
of policemen, were shifted to Lady
reading Hospital for treatment.
The explosion takes place a day after
security sources revealed that the
proscribed militant organisation,
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
planned huge attacks within the
next 24 hours in the provincial
capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The attacks were said to target law
enforcement agencies.

source. dawn.com

 

[karan.1970]

Again, looks like people administering polio vaccinations were targeted.

 

[chhota bheem]

RIP:...:...........

 

[MULUBJA]

It is happening again and again in Peshawar. Pak Government need to do something seriously.

RIP Innocent citizens.

 

[lightoftruth]

Blast near Peshawar kills six, 15 injured - DAWN.COM

SSP (operations) Najeeb-ur-Rehman said that six persons had died, including four policemen and two members of a peace committee, and fifteen others were injured in the explosion.

 

[onionkiller]

Again, looks like people administering polio vaccinations were targeted.

there target was law enforcement agencies.

 

[VeeraBahadur]

Blast near vaccination center kills 2 in Pakistan's Peshawar | Reuters

By Jibran Ahmed

PESHAWAR, Pakistan | Mon Oct 7, 2013 2:06am EDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb that exploded near a polio vaccination team in the volatile northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday killed at least two people, and possibly as many as six, police said, the latest in a string of attacks against health workers.

Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan, undermining Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's efforts to tame the insurgency by opening peace talks with the Taliban.

Peshawar has borne the brunt of much of that violence, with the frontier city near the Afghan border hit by at least four attacks that killed scores in the past month.

Monday's blast appeared to target police who were assigned to protect the vaccination team. Health workers have been attacked repeatedly since the Taliban denounced vaccination as a Western plot to sterilize Muslims.

Two people were killed and around 20 people wounded, said Peshawar police official Najeeb ur-Rehman. Other police reports suggested up to six people were killed.

The bomb was placed directly outside a clinic in Sulemankhen, on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Peshawar, Rehman said.

Gunmen killed two female polio health workers in the same area earlier this year. Similar attacks have been staged elsewhere in Pakistan and also in Nigeria, where Islamist gunmen killed nine health workers in February.

Such attacks hamper efforts by global health organizations to eradicate polio, a virus that can cause irreversible paralysis within hours of infection. Polio remains endemic in only three countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.

A small but vocal minority of religious leaders in those countries accuse the West of using the vaccination campaign to cover up a variety of anti-Islam plots.

Eight new cases of polio were reported in Pakistan last week, according to the Global Eradication Initiative.

Violence in Pakistan's often lawless northwest has shown few signs of abating despite efforts to open talks with separate Taliban groups in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan.

A car bomb killed 42 people in an ancient market in Peshawar on September 29, a week after an attack by a Taliban faction on Peshawar's Anglican church killed about 80 people.

 

[MULUBJA]

RIP innocent Civilians!

One news says that 6 killed.

 

[VeeraBahadur]

RIP innocent Civilians!

One news says that 6 killed.

Any link for that ??

 

[MULUBJA]

Any link for that ??

I think the title of CNN news is misleading. Pl google search "Attack in pakistan" Time line last 1 hour. You will find the news. One more link.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15695869-6-killed-in-a-suicide-attack-in-pakistan

 

[SirHatesALot]

Rest in Peace

 

[[Bregs]]

terrorist have gone crazy taking vaccination as sterilization lol

 

[VeeraBahadur]

terrorist have gone crazy taking vaccination as sterilization lol

They were always crazy.Education is only way to weed out this menace.

 

[janon]

What exactly is the reason for targeting polio campaigners repeatedly? What is their beef with them?

 

[karan.1970]

What exactly is the reason for targeting polio campaigners repeatedly? What is their beef with them?

Makes a more sensational news in International media