By Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Gunmen ambushed and shot dead six Pakistani women aid workers and a male doctor on Tuesday, police said.
Their vehicle was raked with gunfire as they returned home from work at a children's community center run by Pakistani charity Ujala, or Light, said district police officer Abdur Rashid Khan. Their driver was seriously wounded in the attack.
The motive for the shooting in Swabi district, about 45 miles northwest of the capital of Islamabad, was not clear and no one at Ujala was immediately available for comment.
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Doctors at the Shah Mansoor Medical Complex in Swabi said they had received the seven bodies.
Last month, gunmen killed nine health workers taking part in a national polio vaccination drive in a series of attacks. Most of the victims were young women earning about $2 a day.
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The Taliban said it did not carry out those attacks, although its leaders have repeatedly denounced the vaccination program as a plot to sterilize people or spy on Muslims.
Aid workers have frequently been kidnapped or killed in Pakistan, a nation of 180 million that is struggling to contain a Taliban insurgency and plagued by endemic corruption and violent crime.
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