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Militants kill 5 women helping with polio vaccine in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan — Gunmen shot and killed five women working on UN-backed polio vaccination efforts in two Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major setback for a campaign that international health officials consider vital to containing the crippling disease but which Taliban insurgents say is a cover for espionage.

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