To helsearbeidere og fem lærere ble drept i det nordvestlige Pakistan, formodentlig av Taliban som anser poliovaksine for et vestlig komplott mot muslimer.

Sist måned ble ni helsearbeidere drept av samme grunn.

Seven charity workers, six of them women, have been shot dead in north-west Pakistan, police say.

The women, some of them teachers, were attacked near a children’s community centre. A male colleague died with them. All were Pakistani citizens.

Their vehicle came under gunfire near the centre run by Pakistani charity Ujala, or Light.

Militants targeting a vaccination programme are suspected. No group has said it carried out the attack.

The incident happened in the Swabi district close to a road connecting Peshawar to the eastern city of Lahore.

The centre was part school and part clinic, specialising in maternal health.

“Four men came on two motorbikes. They attacked their van. They opened fire to the right and left of the van and fled on their motorbikes,” Swabi district police chief Abdul Rashid Khan said, according to AFP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20880948