In the latest attack on convoys in
Pakistan carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, NATO oil
tankers were set ablaze at Landikotal and Torkham late Friday night,
killing at least sixteen people.
In the first incident at 10:30 pm, militants torched a NATO oil tanker
in Khugakhel area on the Landikotal bypass, Geo TV quoted sources, as
saying. The tanker was parked on the roadside when it was dynamited with a time device, the sources added.
Six people died immediately in the blast, while injured were taken to hospitals, where ten more succumbed to injuries.
The second incident took place within a few minutes at Torkham, where an explosive device went off in an oil tanker at the Torkham parking hub, officials said.
Soon after the blast, the fire spread and engulfed three more oil tankers parked near it.
Earlier, there have been similar attacks on the convoys carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan in Quetta, Naseerabad and Shikarpur areas of Pakistan.
NATO trucks and oil tankers are regularly targeted with arson attacks blamed on insurgents attempting to disrupt the two key supply lines, which cross western Pakistan bound for foreign troops fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan. (ANI)
