Suspected Boko Haram members yesterday attacked a United Nation convoy carrying staff from UNICEF, UNFPA, and IOM. 
The convoy was traveling from Bama to Maiduguri in Borno State after delivering special food to malnourished children IDP camps in the state, when they were attacked.
A UNICEF employee and an IOM contractor were injured in the attack while four soldiers received gunshot wounds and are being treated at a local hospital. All other UNICEF, IOM and UNFPA staff are safe.
The United Nations has temporarily suspended humanitarian assistance missions pending review of the security situation.
Unicef said in a statement that unknown assailants attacked the convoy on Thursday as it returned to Maiduguri from delivering aid in Bama, injuring a Unicef employee and an International Organization for Migration contractor.
"The United Nations has temporarily suspended humanitarian assistance missions pending review of the security situation,".
Nearly a quarter of a million children in Borno suffer from life-threatening malnourishment and around one in five will die if they do not receive treatment, Unicef said earlier this month
Médecins Sans Frontières said on Wednesday that severely malnourished children were dying in large numbers in north-east Nigeria where food supplies are close to running out.
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