Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: A driver
was killed on the spot and his crew member sustained injuries when unknown
persons attacked the Nato containers near Sur Kamar area of Jamrud tehsil of
Khyber Agency, local and official sources said on Tuesday.
The sources said that two Nato containers were on their way
to Afghanistan were ambushed near Sur Kamar area of Jamrud tehsil. The driver
killed was identified as Attaullah, resident of Badhber, Peshawar and Zafar
Shinwari, resident of Landikotal was injured in the attack. He was rushed to
Peshawar hospital, the sources said.
“Several masked men with automatic guns
erupted on the roadside in sur Kamar and opened indiscriminate firing over the
containers carrying Nato and US consignment to Afghanistan”, an eyewitness told
this scribe on phone pleading anonymity. However, the official sources said
that militants attacked the convoy around 11 am and killed one person and
leaving another injured.
It may be mentioned here that it was the first attack at the
Nato trucks carried out after the restoration of Nato supplies to Afghanistan
after eight months.
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