Two killed in attack on Japanese consular office

Pakistan (AP):

Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a Japanese consular vehicle in Pakistan's largest city yesterday, wounding two local employees and underscoring the fragile security in the country. Islamist militants have targeted foreigners in Pakistan before, but police said the attack may have been an attempted robbery. Karachi is a chaotic city of 16 million, and violence linked to criminal gangs, political and ethnic rivalries and Muslim extremists is common. Elsewhere in the country, an American missile strike killed seven suspected militants close to the Afghan border, the latest in a surge of such attacks over the last two months. The shooting in Karachi happened soon after the three Pakistanis in the car had stopped by a bank to get cash, police official Javed Akbar Riaz said. The two wounded men were in stable condition, he said.