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Attack on anti-polio teams in Afghanistan kills at least five health workers

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Jalalabad, Jun 15 (EFE/EPA).- Militants killed five health workers and wounded four in a series of attacks on anti-polio teams in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said.The officials said the attacks took place in Surkhrod and Khogyani districts and Jalalabad city of the volatile province a day after the national immunization campaign against the virus kicked off in the country.Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, said the gunmen attacked health workers during “their life-saving work” in five locations in Nangarhar province. (Camera: GHULAMULLAH HABIBI).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE HELP TRANSFER THE BODY OF ONE OF THE POLIO VACCINATION WORKERS WHO WAS KILLED IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN.

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