Three female health workers gunned down in Afghanistan
By Web Deskupdated : 2 weeks ago
KABUL: 31, MARCH, 2021: Three female polio vaccination workers were gunned down in two separate attacks by unidentified assailants on Tuesday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, provincial capital of Nangarhar officials said.
A blast had also rocked the provincial health department headquarters but left no casualties, they added.
According to spokesman for Nangarhar’s governor Attuallah Khogyani, "We can confirm that three women vaccinators were killed by armed men in two different areas of the city."
"We do not have further details, but the women were on foot and were going from house to house to find children who needed to be vaccinated," Khogyani added.
"The blast took place at the entrance to the health department for the province of Nangarhar late on Tuesday morning," a head of the immunisation programme at Afghanistan’s Health Ministry, Ghulam Dastagir Nazari said in a statement.
Around the same time gunmen shot vaccination workers at two separate locations in Jalalabad, killing two volunteers and one supervisor in the polio immunisation programme, all of them women, he added.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident, which comes weeks after the killing of three women journalists in Jalalabad in an attack claimed by Daesh.
Earlier this month, three female journalists were gunned down by unknown assailants in Afghanistan.
According to a foreign news agency, unidentified gunmen shot and killed three female journalists in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. According to media reports, the three women who worked for a local Afghan radio and TV station were shot dead in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday.
Sources said that the women were targeted in two separate attacks.Zalmai Latifi, director at Enikass TV said, "They are all dead. They were going home from the office on foot when they were shot," adding that all three women worked in the dubbing department at Enikass.
On the other hand, Zahir Adeel, a spokesman for the local hospital in Nangahar, confirmed the deaths but no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks. The broadcaster identified one of the women as Mursal Wahidi. The other two have been identified only as Shahnaz and Sadia.
The three women dubbed popular dramas from Turkey and India into Dari and Pashtu, according to a Enikass worker. (04)
Three female health workers gunned down in Afghanistan
By Web Deskupdated : 2 weeks ago
KABUL: 31, MARCH, 2021: Three female polio vaccination workers were gunned down in two separate attacks by unidentified assailants on Tuesday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, provincial capital of Nangarhar officials said.
A blast had also rocked the provincial health department headquarters but left no casualties, they added.
According to spokesman for Nangarhar’s governor Attuallah Khogyani, "We can confirm that three women vaccinators were killed by armed men in two different areas of the city."
"We do not have further details, but the women were on foot and were going from house to house to find children who needed to be vaccinated," Khogyani added.
"The blast took place at the entrance to the health department for the province of Nangarhar late on Tuesday morning," a head of the immunisation programme at Afghanistan’s Health Ministry, Ghulam Dastagir Nazari said in a statement.
Around the same time gunmen shot vaccination workers at two separate locations in Jalalabad, killing two volunteers and one supervisor in the polio immunisation programme, all of them women, he added.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident, which comes weeks after the killing of three women journalists in Jalalabad in an attack claimed by Daesh.
Earlier this month, three female journalists were gunned down by unknown assailants in Afghanistan.
According to a foreign news agency, unidentified gunmen shot and killed three female journalists in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. According to media reports, the three women who worked for a local Afghan radio and TV station were shot dead in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday.
Sources said that the women were targeted in two separate attacks.Zalmai Latifi, director at Enikass TV said, "They are all dead. They were going home from the office on foot when they were shot," adding that all three women worked in the dubbing department at Enikass.
On the other hand, Zahir Adeel, a spokesman for the local hospital in Nangahar, confirmed the deaths but no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks. The broadcaster identified one of the women as Mursal Wahidi. The other two have been identified only as Shahnaz and Sadia.
The three women dubbed popular dramas from Turkey and India into Dari and Pashtu, according to a Enikass worker. (04)
