Karachi: UN polio vaccination doctor attacked near Sorabh Goth

Gunmen opened fire on a UN vehicle in Karachi Tuesday, wounding a driver and a foreign doctor working on a polio immunization campaign, officials said. Local police said two young Afghan men opened fire on the vehicle in the Soharb Goth neighborhood of eastern Karachi. “A foreigner was wounded critically while his driver sustained superficial wounds,” senior police official Shahid Hayat told AFP. Police said the foreign doctor had been traveling 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 Islamabad. Pakistan kicked off a three-day polio vaccination campaign on Monday.