Taken for dead, truck driver found alive

A truck driver, who rescuers initially thought was dead, was recovering on Tuesday after hospital staff receiving bodies realised he was alive despite being shot five times in one of the most widespread attacks by militants in years.

On Monday, Munir Ahmed was driving with three colleagues in a convoy of four trucks. The drivers did not notice anything amiss and had not heard of any violence until they were about an hour outside of the provincial capital, Quetta.

Suddenly, armed men crowded the dusty stretch of highway, waving at them to stop, ordering the drivers out of their trucks and lining them up on the roadside