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Summary A United Nations doctor has been injured in a firing incident in Karachi.
Gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle in Karachi Tuesday, wounding a foreign doctor working on a polio immunisation campaign and a local driver, officials said.The shooting happened in Soharb Ghoth on the second day of a widely publicised polio vaccination campaign.A WHO vehicle was fired upon with gunshots. One international staff and one local driver were injured in the incident, Maryam Yunus, spokeswoman for the United Nations World Health Organization, told AFP.She said the doctor from Ghana and the Pakistani doctor had been transferred to a private hospital in the southern port city where their condition was stable.They are out of danger, Yunus said.Police blamed the shooting on two Afghan men.Local police station chief Mohammad Sultan said the doctor had been working in theneighbourhood for about three months, where he was vaccinating against polio.He was going there when firing took place, Sultan said.Police had initially said that the doctor was critically wounded.Local television channels broadcast footage of bullet holes in the unmarked, white double-cabin pick-up vehicle.Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria.
