Unknown Gun Men Kill 9 Female Health Workers Administering Polio Vaccine In Kano

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In another attack suspected to be by members of the Boko-Haram sect, unknown gunmen have killed at least nine female workers involved in polio vaccinations in two separate incidents in the city of Kano.

The gunmen who rode on tricylcles opened fire on health workers at Hotoro Haye and Shargalle Health Centre in the Kano metropolis as the health workers prepared their polio vaccination cocktails for the day.

About two women met their untimely end at Unguwa Uku while seven others died from the attack on Shargalle Health Centre. The two raids took place thirty minutes apart.

The Boko Haram sect is known to be generally against western civilization and oppose to polio vaccination claiming that it was a western scheme to limit Muslim population in Nigeria.

Boko Haram is estimated to have killed about 792 in people in Nigeria in 2012.