GUNMEN KILL SEVEN IN ATTACK ON NATO CONVOY IN PAKISTAN

09.06.2010 [12:26]
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Baku, June 9 (AZERTAC). Gunmen have attacked a Nato convoy near the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killing at least seven people and setting several vehicles on fire, according to the BBC.

The overnight assault took place just 10km (six miles) outside the city - the closest such attack to the capital so far.

A dozen militants opened fire, torching 20 parked supply trucks and destroying millions of dollars of army equipment.

The Nato trucks were carrying supplies to alliance troops in Afghanistan.

Kalim Iman, inspector general of Islamabad police, said that police were searching for the suspected militants, who escaped in two cars and on motorbikes.

In addition to those killed, police said at least four others were injured. The casualties were thought to be the drivers of the trucks and other local people.

Some three-quarters of the supplies needed by the 130,000 US-led international troops in Afghanistan are transported by land from the Pakistan port of Karachi.

GUNMEN KILL SEVEN IN ATTACK ON NATO CONVOY IN PAKISTAN

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