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American gunned down in Pakistan
Gunmen killed a US aid official on Wednesday outside his home in Peshawar, police said. The city has borne the brunt of an insurgency spreading from tribal lands bordering Afghanistan.
- Agencies
- Published: 23:42 November 12, 2008
Peshawar: Gunmen killed a US aid official on Wednesday outside his home in Peshawar, police said. The city has borne the brunt of an insurgency spreading from tribal lands bordering Afghanistan.
The violence has raised fears of instability in Pakistan, whose support is seen as vital to the defeat of Al Qaida globally and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The US aid official and his Pakistani driver were in a Peshawar neighbourhood favoured by diplomats and foreign aid workers close to the American Club.
"As he was coming out of his home, the attackers opened fire on him and killed him along with his driver," said a senior police officer, who requested anonymity.
The victim was Steve Vance, the head of US government funded project to develop livelihoods in the tribal region, police officials, and a former colleague said. He was living in Peshawar with his wife and five children, having arrived in the city early this year, according to the ex-colleague.
Just hours after the shooting, a suicide car-bomber killed three Pakistani soldiers and wounded four in an attack on a military camp in the northwestern town of Shabqadar, near Peshawar.
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