{"id":45223,"date":"2018-01-18T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45223"},"modified":"2018-01-18T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T09:20:08","slug":"two-polio-workers-gunned-down-in-quetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=45223","title":{"rendered":"Two polio workers gunned down in Quetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUETTA Jan 18 (TNS):<\/strong> Unidentified armed men attacked on Thursday a polio vaccination team in Shalkot area of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Two lady health workers were killed as a result of the firing, the police informed.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials reached the site of the attack after the incident and launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A polio immunisation drive was underway in Balochistan this week, where in more than 2.4 million children were to be administered the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-polio workers are often targetted in Pakistan, which remains one of the handfuls of countries where the crippling disease is still endemic.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, a polio case was reported in the Gulistan area of Killa Abdullah district of Balochistan after a 16-month-old child was diagnosed with the\u00a0virus.<\/p>\n<p>The total polio cases reported in the country last year was eight of which\u00a0three were from Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA Jan 18 (TNS): Unidentified armed men attacked on Thursday a polio vaccination team in Shalkot area of the city. Two lady health workers were killed as a result of the firing, the police informed. Police officials reached the site of the attack after the incident and launched an investigation. A polio immunisation drive was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46],"tags":[589,390],"class_list":["post-45223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-quetta","tag-national","tag-quetta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45225,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45223\/revisions\/45225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}