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muriel_volestrangler

(101,295 posts)
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 01:01 PM Jan 2016

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.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-blast-idUKKCN0UR0ID20160113



And the religious fundamentalist psychopaths fall over themselves in the rush to call themselves backwards idiots who want children to die.
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Suicide bomber kills at least 15 outside Pakistan polio center (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jan 2016 OP
Religion poisons everything. MynameisBlarney Jan 2016 #1
The anti-vaccination movement is partially to blame for this as well. Crowman1979 Jan 2016 #2
Not exactly maxsolomon Jan 2016 #4
k&r uppityperson Jan 2016 #3

Crowman1979

(3,844 posts)
2. The anti-vaccination movement is partially to blame for this as well.
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 01:39 PM
Jan 2016

Now they have even more blood on their hands.

maxsolomon

(33,284 posts)
4. Not exactly
Wed Jan 13, 2016, 05:28 PM
Jan 2016

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.

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