JALALABAD: at least four people were killed and four injured on Tuesday in a series of attacks on polio employees in southern Afghanistan, officials explained that the next attack targeting vaccinators in the region in under 3 weeks.
“They had been able to immunize the children from polio,” health ministry spokesman Osman Taheri explained, including the strikes occurred in three distinct places over two or three hours.
Nangarhar authorities spokesman Farid Khan supported the strikes.
2 polio vaccinators were killed and one injured in strikes in Khogyani district, although two have been murdered in Surkhrod.
In another assault, three vaccinators were injured in the provincial capital, Jalalabad.
The vaccination drive from the state had been stopped, yet another health officer told AFP.
“These were targeted strikes from polio vaccinators, and so for now we’ve ceased all polio vaccination forces in Nangarhar province,” the officer stated.
Tuesday’s attacks come less than three weeks after gunmen shot dead 3 girls polio vaccinators at Jalalabad.
The Taliban and spiritual leaders regularly tell communities which offenses are a Western conspiracy directed toward sterilising Muslim kids, and in addition, they guess immunisation forces are used for cloning militant actions.