7 Pakistani police guarding polio team shot down

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 KARACHI, April 20, (AFP): Gunmen on motorcycles gunned down seven policemen guarding a polio vaccination team in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, officials said. Feroz Shah, a senior police official told AFP that eight gunmen carried out the killings in two separate attacks in the city’s western Orangi Town neighbourhood. “The gunmen first opened fire on three policemen in the streets of Orangi Town, killing them all,” he said, adding: “Later they shot dead four policemen, who were sitting in a police mobile van” a few streets away. Abdul Kareem, an official in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where the bodies were taken, also confirmed the casualties.

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