Kabul, August 24: As black clouds of smoke billowed from the charred remains of at least 19 Nato tankers and flames licked the dark sky near the Afghanistan border, agog locals observed the wreckage following an ambush.
Gunmen atop motorbikes on Monday opened fire on the narrow main highway at Kolpur village in Pakistan, 25km south of Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan province.
The tankers, carrying tonnes of fuel, were heading through the southwestern Pakistan region en route to Nato forces in Afghanistan when they were fired upon in an attack that has become all too familiar to coalition forces.
Much of the non- lethal supplies for the US- led operation in Afghanistan are trucked through Pakistan after arriving by sea in Karachi, and are sitting duck targets. On this occasion the gunmen fired at the tankers as they were waiting for a police escort on the main highway at Kolpur village, police said.
And violence continued on Monday in Karachi, the country’s largest city, where gunmen killed four more people; at least 85 people have been killed in Karachi in the past week.
A suspected US missile strike also killed four alleged insurgents on Monday in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border.
Courtesy: Mailtoday.in