He was speaking from Abidjan, the country's economic capital, after an ICRC team visited rebel-held territory.
Last week, the agency delivered 13 tons of medical supplies to the ICRC in Harare.
They need food, medicine, mattresses and blankets, said Sean Maguire, ICRC spokesman in Britain.
ICRC, it seems improbable that it will accept any form of international intervention, advice or mediation.
He also worked in Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq, before his posting to Pakistan with the ICRC.
The ICRC team found dozens of dead bodies in two villages, spokeswoman Jessica Barry in Kabul, told CNN.
The ICRC's detainee visits in Uzbekistan had already been suspended for several months.
"The children and the wounded had to be taken to the ambulances on a donkey cart, " the ICRC said.
CNN: Israel kills 30 civilians at shelter, witnesses tell U.N.
During his two-day visit, Mr Kellenberger plans to visit areas affected during the fighting, the ICRC said in a statement.
"The ICRC considers the situation in the capital is near critical, with hardly any movement on the streets, " Wimhurst added.
His only good fortune: the fact that the accident happened the same day the ICRC team was in his area.
"We are deeply concerned by these events, " Reto Stocker, the ICRC's head of delegation in Kabul, Afghanistan, said in a statement.
The ICRC says it visits detainees all over the world with the aim of improving their situation and easing their suffering.
In the past two weeks, it has also given the ICRC limited access to its screening of those escaping the war-zone.
The ICRC also says that recent months have seen an increase in the number of people arrested in connection with the conflict.
The expression of interest provides an unexpected ally for the ICRC in its bid to step-up activities in infrastructure financing in the country.
Pacheco said she could not say if the incident witnesses described to the U.N. was the same incident in the ICRC report.
CNN: Israel kills 30 civilians at shelter, witnesses tell U.N.
Rescue teams found 15 wounded people and three corpses in other houses, said the ICRC, which casts the shelling as a single incident.
CNN: Israel kills 30 civilians at shelter, witnesses tell U.N.
But the Ethiopian government accused the Eritrean government of refusing to accept its own citizens, and the ICRC of giving into Eritrean propaganda.
The Ethiopian authorities went ahead with bussing the Eritreans to the border - a move which the ICRC said contravened the Geneva Conventions.
The ICRC said they had evacuated 530 people on Thursday and 350 the day before, including families as well as sick and wounded people.
"We hope Mr. Alvarez will soon be reunited with his family, " Jordi Raich, head of the ICRC delegation in Colombia, said in a statement.
They were flown from Albania to Germany where they were visited by ICRC representatives, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions on treatment of POWs.
BusinessDay gathered on Tuesday that the proposal is on the top of agenda for discussions at the meeting of top management of ICRC in Abuja.
"It is deplorable that high numbers of civilian casualties are now a daily occurrence, " said Robert Mardini, who heads ICRC operations in the Middle East.
Mr Karimov's government has yet to comment on the ICRC's move.
Strapped for supplies and personnel, health-care facilities were finding it difficult to treat the wounded, said the ICRC, which has 50 staff members in Syria.
Mardini said the ICRC and the Syrian Red Crescent were delivering food and hygiene kits in two neighborhoods adjacent to Baba Amr -- al-Tawzee and al-Inshaat.
"This was very much similar to what the ICRC reported yesterday as to what the medical personnel found when they went into the neighborhood, " Pacheco said.
CNN: Israel kills 30 civilians at shelter, witnesses tell U.N.
Last month, after the fall of the rebel district of Baba Amr, in Homs, the Syrian government said it would allow an ICRC convoy into the area.
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