Gunmen ambush Nato supply vehicles, kill two

Gunmen ambushed two vehicles carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, killing a driver and his helper and wounding two others, police said Thursday. The attack took place overnight in the Qalat district of the restive south-western province of Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran. "A driver and his helper were killed, and another driver and helper were wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire at them," local police official Abdul Hameed told AFP.
Both vehicles were damaged and oil leaked from one of the tankers, he said. The vehicles had not been travelling in a convoy with security vehicles, as would normally happen, he added. Another police official in the area confirmed the incident. Nato and US-led forces in landlocked Afghanistan are hugely dependent on Pakistan for supplies, with about 80 percent passing through Pakistan. The bulk of equipment required by the foreign troops is shipped through Pakistan's tribal region of Khyber, where the Taliban have carried out a series of attacks on trucks.