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UN pulls staff as 3 more polio workers shot in Pakistan
Updated On: 20 December, 2012 07:21 AM IST | | Agencies
Three workers in a polio eradication campaign were shot in Pakistan on Wednesday, and two of them were killed, the latest in a string of attacks that has partially halted the United Nations-backed global health campaign to stamp out the crippling disease.
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Following the violence, the United Nations in Pakistan has pulled all staff involved in the immunisation campaign off the streets, spokesman Michael Coleman said.
Enough is enough: Pakistani polio vaccination workers shout slogans against the killing of their colleagues during a protest in Karachi yesterday. Pic/AFP
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