According to the Associated Press, the teachers were gunned down in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the same area where militants shot and seriously wounded Malala Yousufzai, the 15-year-old activist who fights for women’s right to education, in October last year.
Javed Akhtar, director of Support With Working Solutions, a non-governmental organization active in vaccination campaigns against polio, suspect that the victims were targeted for their anti-polio work.
AP reports that health workers have long been accused by militants as spies working for the US government, with an allegation that the anti-polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.
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