Nigeria: Police IG Orders Special Security for Health Workers After Murder of Three Korean Doctors in Yobe

11 February 2013

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered special security for all medical personnel involved in the ongoing routine immunization hours after unknown assailants gruesomely murdered three North Korean doctors attached to a local hospital in Potiskum, Yobe State.

The attack came a day after unidentified gunmen Friday morning shot dead nine female health workers in two separate attacks during a routine polio immunization.

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