Four suspected militants opened fire on a convoy of NATO fuel trucks in southwestern Pakistan. Attacks on NATO supply convoys have increased in recent weeks.<br /><br />An attack on a NATO convoy.<br /><br />A tanker caught fire on Wednesday when gunmen attacked at least seven NATO trucks near the town of Sibbi in southwestern Pakistan. <br /><br />Eyewitnesses described how four men, two on motorcycles and two on foot, sprayed bullets at the convoy carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan. <br /><br />Another truck was also damaged by gunfire while the remaining five escaped. <br /><br />It is suspected that Islamist militants are responsible for the assault.<br /><br />Attacks on convoys carrying supplies for NATO forces have increased since a cross-border air strike by NATO on September 30 that killed two soldiers in northwestern Pakistan.
