Gunmen have shot and killed a mother and her daughter who were immunising children against polio in Pakistan’s south-western city of Quetta. Sakina Bibi, 50, and her 20-year-old daughter, Alizah, were providing polio immunisation drops to children when two gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot them.**********
“Both died on their way to the hospital,” said police official Naseebullah Khan.
The Taliban, hardline clerics and other organisations see vaccinations as part of a western conspiracy. Clerics have claimed the vaccines will sterilise Pakistani children. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only three countries in the world where polio has still not been eliminated.
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