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Taliban Faction Kills Seven Cops Gaurding Polio Team In Pakistan

Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 Apr, 2016 11:01 AM
    A Pakistani Taliban group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the killing of seven policemen who were guarding polio vaccination teams in the country' s commercial hub of Karachi.
     
    The attacks highlighted the risk for the vaccination teams and their police guards in Pakistan which is among the three countries where the polio virus persists.
     
    Vaccination campaign was suspended in parts of Karachi after the two attacks in different locations within 15 minutes, officials said.
     
    Gunmen riding motorcycles sprayed bullets at the police mobile teams, a police officer Fairoz Shah told reporters. The gunmen fled after the attacks.
     
    The authorities launched a three-day polio vaccination drive in Karachi on Monday and the attacks occurred on the last day of the campaign. Health officials had planned to administer drops to nearly 2.2 million children in Karachi.
     
    The Pakistani Taliban splinter Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group claimed responsibility.
     
    "We have carried out both attacks on the polio teams in Karachi, " spokesman for the TTP JA Ehsaullah Ehsan said in a phone call to the local media. He said the attacks were part of the group's activities across Pakistan.
     
    The group, which the officials say operates from the Afghan side of the border, has claimed several recent attacks.
     
    Last month the group's bomber killed over 70 people at a park in Lahore. 

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