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AFP/File – Pakistani firefighters work to extinguish a burning NATO supply oil tanker following an attack by gunmen … 
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – At least five people were killed when militants fired on two vehicles in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, while the driver of a NATO oil tanker was shot dead in the southwest, officials said.
Five people died and 11 others were wounded when militants fired on the two vehicles in the northwestern Jawakai tribal area, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) 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, in a region rife with a homegrown insurgency.
Separately, in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, 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, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Quetta, the provincial capital, when the vehicle was headed to southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar.
Baloch said that the gunmen sprayed bullets onto the tanker, causing the fuel to leak, but it did not catch fire.
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.
Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks on NATO supply vehicles in the northwest and southwest of Pakistan, bordering landlocked Afghanistan.
Most supplies and equipment required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistan, although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through Central Asia.
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