{At least 14 people killed, 20 wounded as blast hits near polio vaccination centre in city of Quetta.}<\/p>\n
At least 14 people have been killed and 20 others injured in an explosion near a polio vaccination centre in the city of Quetta, police have told Al Jazeera. <\/p>\n
Rescue teams shifted the victims to the Civil Hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan province, where an emergency was declared after Wednesday’s blast. <\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said most of the dead were security forces on their way to guard the polio vaccination centre, which was in the last day of a programme.<\/p>\n
“One passerby was also killed in the explosion,” Hyder reported.<\/p>\n
The attack comes after the anti-polio campaign was relaunched in Quetta and other districts of Balochistan on Monday.<\/p>\n
Pakistan remains on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) list of polio-endemic countries. Last year, 49 new cases of polio were reproted in Pakistan, a huge drop from 282 in 2014. <\/p>\n
The campaign faced threats against polio vaccination teams issued by armed religious groups such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its allies in the past. <\/p>\n
Source:Al Jazeera:[Deadly blast hits near anti-polio centre in Pakistan->http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/01\/deadly-blast-hits-anti-polio-centre-pakistan-160113044540957.html]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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