Suicide bomber kills at least 15 outside Pakistan polio center
Source: Reuters
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people, most of them police, outside a polio eradication center in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, the latest militant attack on the anti-polio campaign in the country.
Two militant groups - the Pakistani Taliban and Jundullah, which has links with the Taliban and has pledged allegiance to Islamic State - separately claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bomb blew up a police van that had just arrived at the center to provide an escort for workers in a drive to immunize all children under five years old in the poor southwestern province of Baluchistan.
"It was a suicide blast, we have gathered evidence from the scene," Ahsan Mehboob, the provincial police chief told Reuters.
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And the religious fundamentalist psychopaths fall over themselves in the rush to call themselves backwards idiots who want children to die.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Now they have even more blood on their hands.
maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)My understanding is that Polio Vaccination campaigns were used by the CIA to locate OBL, and they now are accused of complicity with America. Therefore they're targeted by the Taliban. Or ISIL. Or whomever.
I'll say it again: rather than invading Iraq, we should have quarantined Pakistan.