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Two killed in attack on NATO supplies in Pakistan
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-12-01 14:17
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Two drivers of trucks transporting supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan were killed on Monday in a grenade and gun attack near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, a transport company official said.

The trucks were parked at a terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar when militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at them, setting some of them on fire, police said.

"When the fire was raging, the attackers started firing and two drivers were killed," Mohammad Haroon, an official of Al-Faisal Cargo, a private company involved in trucking supplies to Afghanistan, told Reuters.

Militants in Pakistan have stepped up attacks on supplies going through northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pass, a vital supply link for Western forces in landlocked Afghanistan.