The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is putting its aid activities across Afghanistan "on hold" following the attack of one of its convoys in which six Afghan staff members were killed.
Two ICRC employees are still unaccounted for, a senior ICRC official said.
"For the time being, we decided to put on hold all our operations in the whole country because we also need and want to mark what is a horrible incident, which came as a huge shock for all our staff, first and foremost in Afghanistan, but also to respect the families.
“We have six of our colleagues that were killed, our thoughts are very much with the families. We are mourning with the families, and at the same time, focusing on establishing the whereabouts of the two Afghan colleagues that are still unaccounted for," ICRC's director of global operations Dominik Stillhart told Reuters TV in Geneva.
At the time of the attack, the ICRC convoy had been carrying supplies to areas in the north that have been hard hit by snow storms in the past few week.
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