Gunmen Kill Woman Anti-Polio Volunteer in Afghanistan

Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a female polio vaccination campaigner in Afghanistan on Monday and seriously wounded her granddaughter, officials said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but some fanatics in some parts of the world believe campaigns against the crippling disease are a plot against Muslims or an attempt to spy on militants. The pair, a woman and her teenaged granddaughter, were eradication-campaign volunteers, going house to house in the southern...

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