QUETTA, May 14: Two Pakistanis were killed and another was seriously injured in a Nato helicopter gunship attack on a remote village in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. According to sources, the bodies of the two Pakistanis were brought to the town of Taftan on the Pakistan-Iran border on Sunday, and handed over to their relatives.

Sources said that the two men belonged to a group involved in smuggling of Iranian petrol and they had gone to the Safgar area in Helmand with a consignment of petrol when they came under the gunship attack. Their vehicle was destroyed and they died of serious injuries suffered in the attack.

Sufi Mohammad Saleem, who was in the same vehicle and suffered serious injuries, identified the two deceased as Mohammad Qasim and Ataullah.