Militants kill six, attack NATO tanker

JAWAKAI: At least five people were killed when militants fired on two vehicles in Jawakai on Saturday, while the driver of a NATO oil tanker was shot dead in Balochistan, officials said.

Five people died and 11 others were wounded when militants fired on the two vehicles in Jawakai tribal area, some 50 kilometres east of Peshawar, 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". There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

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.

The incident took place in the mountainous Dasht area, the provincial capital, when the vehicle was headed to southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban has in the past said it carried out similar assaults to disrupt supplies to the more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011