Policemen inspect a car shattered by bullets in Karachi May 16, 2011. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the car belonging to the Saudi Arabian consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday killing a Saudi diplomat, police and the Saudi ambassador said. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

KARACHI, Pakistan, May 16 (Xinhua) — A vehicle of the Saudi Arabia consulate came under attack in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday morning and a driver was killed, police said.

Shots were fired by some unknown militants riding a motorbike in the Defence area of Karachi when the consulate car was on its way to office, police said.

It was the second attack at Saudi Arabia consulate in Karachi in a week. Last Wednesday, unidentified motorcyclists threw two hand grenades on the consulate but no one was hurt.

Police sources said the attacks may be a reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden in operation by U.S. special forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on May 2.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

There is no immediate reaction to the incident by the Saudi embassy in Islamabad.

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Two people were killed when leftist rebels and government troops clashed in southern Philippines early on Sunday, the military said Monday.

A New People’s Army guerrilla and a pro-government militiaman died during the encounter in Wali village, Maitum town, in Mindanao’s Sarangani province, according to Lieutenant Colonel Lyndon Paniza, spokesperson of the army’s 10th Infantry Division.

Paniza told Xinhua by phone some 30 rebels were seen recruiting minors in several communities in Maitum, prompting the military to conduct a combat operation that resulted in the firefight.

In Compostela Valley province, soldiers on Sunday also recovered several improvised explosives believed planted by NPA rebels.

Paniza said troops from the 71st Infantry Battalion conducting peace and development operations (PDOP) in Kingking village, Pantukan town, stumbled upon the cache of explosives, about eight IEDs.

The military has slammed the leftist guerrillas for using landmines which army officials say are banned by the Geneva Convention of which the NPA’s parent organization and the government of the Republic of the Philippines are both signatories.

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Passengers disembark from Cathay Pacific flight CX715, an Airbus A330 passenger jet, after it made an emergency landing at Singapore’s Changi Airport early May 16, 2011. The aeroplane, which was enroute to Jakarta, experienced engine trouble shortly after takeoff and had to return to Singapore.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

SINGAPORE, May 16 (Xinhua) — A flight of Cathay Pacific bound for Jakarta turned back to Singapore’s Changi Airport about 45 minutes after taking off from the airport on Monday, as one of its engines caught fire, the airline and the airport confirmed.

“Upon the landing of the aircraft, Changi Airport’s Airport Emergency Service responded immediately with six fire vehicles and extinguished a fire in one of the engines,” the airport said in a statement sent to Xinhua, adding that other flight operations were not affected as another runway remained operational.

Cathay Pacific said in a separate statement that all the 136 passengers on board the flight CX715 disembarked without incident and alternative flight and accommodation arrangements were made for its passengers.

The airline said the flight carried out by an Airbus A330 plane returned to Singapore “after a stall warning from the No. 2 engine. The crew shut down the Rolls Royce engine when they received the alert.”

“Cathay Pacific and Rolls Royce are investigating the incident, ” it added.

The details of the incident were not immediately clear, but Reuters cited its photographer who happened to be on the flight as recounting a terrifying experience of hearing two sharp bangs about 20 minutes after taking off and the plane shaking violently in the incident.

The engine explosion in an Airbus A380 jumbo jet last year that led to a Qantas flight turning back and making an emergency landing in Singapore also involved an issue with its Rolls Royce engine. The incident forced Qantas to ground its A380 fleet for several months.

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