UNICEF, WHO suspend polio work in Pakistan

The UN children's agency UNICEF and the World Health Organisation have suspended work on campaigns against polio in Pakistan after a series of attacks left nine health workers dead in three days.

UNICEF spokesman Michael Coleman told AFP the two organisations halted polio work in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces after attacks in Karachi and Peshawar, but extended the suspension nationwide after fresh bloodshed on Wednesday.