Fwd: polio worker shot dead in somalia

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*   **From:** Nasra Hassan
*   **Date:** February 26, 2014 at 7:29:37 PM GMT+1
*   **To:** Terje Rod-Larsen, Andrea Pfanzelter, Bettina Kemp, Mark Shaw
*   **Subject:** polio worker shot dead in somalia

Mark Shaw probably knows better if this is first such attack or not, but the popularity of such attacks is spreading, with Pakistan leading the pack, nasra Polio worker shot dead in Mogadishu

Posted on <u>February 25. 2014</u>

<u>Mareeg.com-A</u> polio worker was shot and killed in Wardigley distinct in the capital Mogadishu

The worker who was woman was targeted by gull men armed with pistols while on her daily duty of vaccination.

According to eyewitness the assailants fled after the incindent.

- Security forces immediately reached the scene and started search operations: no one was arrested in the operations.

Over years polio workers faced the risk of Murder and kidnapping in Somalia.

- On 2010 district polio officer Osman Hussein Ibrahim was killed by a stray bullet while on his way to supervise polio national immunization program. <u>Dalsanradio.com</u>