Nigeria: 12 Polio Workers Shot Dead

8 February 2013

No fewer than 12 polio vaccination staff were shot dead on Friday morning at two locations in Kano state.

The first incident happened around 9am at a clinic called Shargalle at Filin Cashew in Unguwar Uku when gunmen in a tricycle appeared and opened fire on the vaccination officers, killing two male and two female workers.

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