PESHAWAR, July 26: The United Nations has suspended field operations in the NWFP bordering Afghanistan after an attack on a UN vehicle earlier this week, a UN spokesman said on Saturday.

Jack Redden, spokesman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, said the decision came after three gunmen attacked a vehicle belonging to the World Health Organisation on the outskirts of the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday.

No one was hurt in the attack, but Redden termed it a “quite unusual” incident.

“Field operations have been suspended,” he told Reuters. “It wasn’t just a shooting in the air — they hit the dashboard. This was intended certainly to harm the people,” he said.—Reuters