QUETTA, Pakistan — Two people were killed when gunmen torched an oil
tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan in the southwestern
Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Tuesday, officials said.
Gunmen
on a motorbike fired at the vehicle then set it on fire in the Dasht
suburb of the provincial capital Quetta, local administration official
Saeed Kurd told AFP.
The driver and his helper were killed as they could not escape the burning vehicle, he said.
No
group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the Taliban has in
the past said it carried out similar attacks to disrupt supplies to the
more than 130,000 US-led international troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Taliban
and Al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently launch attacks on NATO supply
vehicles in the northwest and southwest regions of Pakistan, which
border landlocked Afghanistan.
Most supplies and equipment
required by foreign forces in Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistan,
although US troops increasingly use alternative routes through Central
Asia. AFP
