Afghan group opposed to Taliban rule rejects accusation that its members killed polio vaccinators
david waker
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Afghan group opposed to Taliban rule rejects accusation that its members killed polio vaccinators
A group who rejected the takeover of the Afghan Taliban had rejected police allegations that killed health workers who manage polio vaccination.
Four people were arrested in connection with the death of seven health workers, who were killed on February 24 in the Imam District of Kunduz Province, in a separate attack during a home-to-home vaccination campaign.
One more vaccine was killed in Takhar’s neighboring province, taking the victim to eight.
Police reportedly said two members of the Front Resistance National (NRF) were arrested in connection with murder and claimed to be on their crimes.
ni connection with this incident, we have arrested a group of four martyrs of two members of the Islamic Emirates and seven vaccinators, including four women and two men. The perpetrators begged guilty,” Mawlawi Najibullah Haroon, Head of the Kunduz Intelligence Department, quoted by Tolo News.
NRF, which is the last group to fight the Taliban regime in Panjshir Valley located in the Hindu Kush Mountains and located 90 miles from the capital of Kabul, has been dubbed the accusation as propaganda”.
The last fortress finally fell in September, weeks after the Taliban put a siege on Kabul on August 15.
The National Front Resistance condemned the perpetrators of this attack and we strongly believe it was done by the Taliban or one of their terrorist partners,” said Ali Nazary spokesman told AFP.
This was the first attack on health workers because the national polio eradication campaign was continued in November 2021, the United Nations was recorded when condemning brutal murder.
