PESHAWAR: 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 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.

Separately, in Balochistan, 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 east of Quetta, 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.