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Gunmen kill four polio workers in Afghanistan’s east

Polio workers targeted in three locations in Jalalabad city – the latest in a series of attacks against health workers.

KABUL — Four polio vaccination workers were killed and three injured in separate attacks in Afghanistan’s eastern city of , a provincial health department official said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks against health workers.

A wave of assassinations have hit urban centers since peace talks began between the Taliban and the Afghan government last year in Doha, many of them targeting government employees, health workers, media and civil society members.

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