Nigeria: Kano Shooting Leaves Health Community 'Dumbfounded'

9 February 2013

Nigeria's health community is "dumbfounded" by Friday's shooting to death of nearly a dozen health workers on polio immunisation duty in Kano.

Minister of state for health Muhammad Ali Pate, who chairs the presidential taskforce on polio eradication, called the two separate shootings a "dastardly act of cowardice" and urged for "large-scale investigation" to find the shooters.

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