By: Rukhshana Media
Eight health workers, who worked for a polio vaccination campaign, were shot dead by unknown in northern Afghanistan, the United Nations said. Seven were killed in three separate attacks in Kunduz province, and one was killed in Taloqan, Takhar’s provincial capital.
The United Nations condemned the attack.
“This senseless violence must stop immediately, and those responsible must be investigated and brought to justice. These attacks are a violation of international humanitarian law,” United Nations said in a statement.
The spate of attacks began Thursday morning in Kunduz when four vaccinators including three men and a woman were shot dead by unknown gunmen in Chahartaq and Ibrahimkhel neighborhoods in Kunduz city, Karima Azam, a doctor at Kunduz provincial hospital said to Rukhshana media.
Then three female volunteers were killed in Abdullah Dehqan village of Imam Sahib district, also in Kunduz.
Azam said all seven dead bodies are kept in the morgue of Kunduz hospital.
No group has claimed responsibility of the attack so far, and the polio vaccination campaign was halted in Kunduz and Takhar provinces.
Amnesty International said in a tweet that it “strongly condemn” the attack, calling for “credible investigation” to bring “those responsible to justice.”
