PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - at least five people were killed when militants fired on two vehicles in the Northwest of Pakistan Saturday, while a NATO tanker driver was shot dead in the Southwest, officials said.
Five people died and 11 others were injured when militants fired on two vehicles in the Northwestern tribal area of Jawakai, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) of Peshawar, senior officer Sahibzada Mohammad Anis said AFP.
Regional police chief Mohammad Masood Khan Afridi confirmed the shooting and the death and said that it was "the work of activists." No there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, in an area highly affected by a homegrown insurgency.
Separately, in southwestern Baluchistan province, gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed the driver of a tanker carrying fuel for the forces of NATO in nearby Afghanistan, Interior Minister Zafarullah Baloch told AFP.
The incident took place in the mountainous region of the Dasht, 40 kilometres (25 miles) Quetta, the provincial capital, when the vehicle is headed to the South of the Afghanistan in Kandahar province.
Baloch said the vaporized armed men shot on the tanker, causing fuel to leak, but it did not catch fire.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban have in the past, said that she has carried out similar attacks to disrupt supplies to more than 130,000 led international troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Militants linked to Al-Qaida and the Taliban frequently launch attacks on the NATO supply vehicles in Southwest Pakistan and Northwest along the Afghanistan landlocked.
Most of the supplies and equipment required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are sent by Pakistan, although U.S. troops increasingly use alternative routes through Central Asia.
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