Four health workers who were part of a polio vaccination team were killed in Pakistan on Wednesday.
According to media reports, gunmen riding motorbikes near the southwestern city of Quetta opened fire on a vehicle carrying a vaccination team of three women and three men.
The attack killed the three women and one man, and, according to reporting by Agence France-Presse, three other women were also wounded.
Reuters described the event as “the most deadly attack on health workers in two years.”
Pakistan joins Nigeria and Afghanistan as being on the list of just three countries in the world where the incurable and crippling disease remains endemic. But, according to reporting by UPI, Wednesday’s attack “is being considered part of a targeted campaign” by some in the country against a polio vaccination drive.
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