PESHAWAR- Suspected militants shot dead a female health worker overnight in a Taliban-infested district in northwest Pakistan, residents and officials said Friday.
An unknown number of assailants raided a health facility late Thursday and gunned down 35-year-old Nihar Begum in the village of Baotha in the Mohmand tribal district which borders Afghanistan.
Residents blamed local Taliban gangs for the killing.
“They oppose women’s activities in every field,” a resident told AFP by telephone.
Local official Haseeb Khan confirmed the incident but said it was not immediately clear whether the attackers were local Taliban.
“We have arrested three suspects and are interrogating them,” Khan said.
Armed men abducted and beat 11 health workers sent to a Pakistani tribal area to administer polio vaccinations forcing the suspension of the campaign in August last year.
In February 2007, a Pakistani health official in charge of a polio inoculation campaign was killed in neighbouring Bajaur district in a bomb blast.
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