A Pakistani security guard stands guard outside the house of US diplomat Lynne Tracy on Tuesday. -- PHOTO: AFP
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - UNKNOWN gunmen opened fire on the car of a senior US diplomat in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, but she escaped unhurt, police said.
The diplomat, Ms Lynne Tracy, was on her way to her office when a Landcruiser suddenly appeared and blocked the road in the University Town neighbourhood of Peshawar, local police officer Arshad Khan told sources.
'A man in the intercepting Landcruiser pulled down the window and opened fire with a Kalashnikov rifle, but the diplomat remained unhurt,' he said. -- AFP
