2 hurt in UN vehicle shooting in Karachi: officials

KARACHI: Gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle wounding a driver and a foreign doctor working on a polio immunisation campaign on Tuesday here, Geo News reported.

Local police said two young Afghan men opened fire on the vehicle in the low-income Soharb Ghoth neighbourhood of eastern Karachi, which is home to thousands of Afghan refugees and migrants.

"A foreigner was wounded critically while his driver sustained minor wounds," senior police official Shahid Hayat told. Police said the foreign doctor had been travelling to a polio vaccination camp, when the vehicle was attacked.

"One of our drivers and one of our staff were hurt, but currently they are both stable," an official from the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) told AFP from the capital Islamabad.

Pakistan kicked off a three-day polio vaccination campaign on Monday.