Gunmen kill 7 policemen in Pakistan during polio campaign

April 20, 2016 19:18

At least seven policemen were shot dead by motorcycle-borne unidentified gunmen in two brazen attacks during an anti-polio campaign in this Pakistani port city, forcing the suspension of vaccination drive. Four policemen were killed while escorting the polio vaccine team in Orangi. Three others were shot dead in another part of the area, Inspector-General Sindh A D Khawaja told reporters.

"They were eight assailants on four motorcycles who first attacked a police mobile in which four policemen were on duty," he said. "While fleeing after the target killings they also shot at three other policemen," he said.

"The killers apparently were targeting the policemen and not the polio workers who were present at the scene of the first attack during the polio immunisation drive that began today," he said.

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