Gunmen kill seven police guarding polio team in Pakistan

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: AFP

Gunmen on motorcycles on Wednesday shot dead seven policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan's southern port city Karachi, officials said, a brazen attack in the country's economic hub.

Feroz Shah, a senior police official told AFP that eight gunmen carried out the killings in two separate attacks in the city's western Orangi Town neighbourhood.

"The gunmen first opened fire on three policemen in the streets of Orangi Town, killing them all," he said, adding: "Later they shot dead four policemen, who were sitting in a police mobile van" a few streets away.

Abdul Kareem, an official in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the bodies were taken, also confirmed the casualties.

Read more: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/gunmen-kill-seven-police-guarding-polio-team-pakistan-102356294.html

[DetlefK]

1. Still pissed that polio-doctors helped find Osama?

[MynameisBlarney]

2. Gotta have something to do with it.

Because I can't think of any other reason.

[Sunlei]

3. Vaccination clinics shouldn't need police guards. Use Local trained citizens to administer vaccines?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. They're using an injectable vaccine as well as an oral one

http://tribune.com.pk/story/941835/pakistan-launches-new-polio-vaccine-aims-for-2016-wipeout/

The strategy for eradicating polio is complex; this is partly because oral vaccines can be excreted, and then they have a limited ability to evolve and cause a few infections:

https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/18/polio-vaccine-the-switch/

[MariaThinks]

9. apparantly they do in Pakistan. Many people serviing the public and trying to save lives

have been shot dead by islamists.

[AllyCat]

4. What the entire hell?

Polio vaccinators??

[Coventina]

5. Can we call Pakistan a failed state yet?

Good gracious!

[MariaThinks]

10. a failed state and exporter of terror.

[FM451]

6. Conspiracy Theory

I remember reading a while back that U.S. backed vaccination programs are viewed with great suspicion in parts of Africa and Asia, in that they could be a screen for espionage activity. Also, that the vaccinations could contain some kind of poison. Or, as in Pakistan, be against Islamic beliefs. The article below is of interest.

Sounds like a problem we have right here.



Read: [link:https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-pakistani-talibans-campaign-against-polio-vaccination|

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Many thanks to brave police fighting and dieing against irrational religious anti-science

Sharia law allows vaccination (though many say no): http://www.arabnews.com/news/532071