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Afghanistan
Two Pakistani drivers killed in Taliban attack
2006-11-05
(KUNA) -- Suspected Taliban attacked a truck convoy supplying food items to NATO forces killing two Pakistan drivers and injuring another in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. Separately, several Taliban have reportedly been killed in an air strike by NATO forces in one of the country's central provinces, a local governor claimed. In the first incident, a convoy of five trucks, all Pakistanis, came under small arms fire in Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia province. Two drivers were killed while a conductor was injured in the attack, police chief of the province Hanan Raufi told KUNA.

Raufi said the assailants fled to nearby mountains after the attack. However, they had formed special teams to chase and arrest them. He said Taliban were involved in the killing of the drivers but the ousted militia did not claim responsibility so far. Burning of vehicles supplying fuel, foodstuff and other logistics to the NATO forces, is common in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan. Two drivers were killed in a similar incident in Ghazni province about a week back. Separately, a local governor claimed the NATO and Afghan forces had killed more than one dozen Taliban in an air strike in Kapisa province, situated some 35 kilometres northeast of Kabul. Taliban rejected the government's claim and said the troops had killed civilians in the air raid. The militia's purported spokesman Dr Hanif said they had attacked the NATO and Afghan forces in Tagab area of the province and killed several soldiers. The claims could not be confirmed from any independent source.
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