Militants kill six, attack Nato tanker

10 Jul, 2011

At least five people were killed when militants fired on two vehicles in Jawakai tribal area, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Peshawar on Saturday, while the driver of a Nato oil tanker was shot dead in the south-west, officials said. Five people died and 11 others were wounded when militants fired on the two vehicles in Jawakai tribal area, senior government official Sahibzada Mohammad Anis told AFP.
Regional police chief Mohammad Masood Khan Afridi confirmed the shooting and deaths, and said it was "the work of militants". Separately, in Balochistan, gunmen on motorcycles shot dead the driver of an oil tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, home secretary Zafarullah Baloch told AFP.

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