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WHYS 60: Tunisian opposition leader shot dead / India Hysterectomies
Opposition leader in Tunisia shot dead. Indian doctors perform unnecessary hysterectomies.
A senior opposition leader, Chokri Belaid in Tunisia has been shot dead on his way to work. He was a prominent secularist and a critic of the moderate Islamist government.
Campaigners in India say unscrupulous doctors are unnecessarily removing the wombs of thousands of women in order to make money from the operations.
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