Islamabad, December 20: Unknown militants have attacked two NATO fuel supply trucks in Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan.
The militants targeted the NATO fuel trucks with rockets in Gatha Pashta area in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday morning, a Press TV correspondent quoted officials as saying.
According to a tribal administration official, two people were wounded in the attack.
“An oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan caught fire after militants attacked with rockets and assault rifles,” tribal administration official Arshad Khan Afridi said.
No one has claimed responsibility yet but local officials blame the attack on pro-Taliban militants.
Pro-Taliban militants have destroyed hundreds of vehicles in northwestern and southwestern Pakistan over the past years.
The militants say the assaults are in retaliation for non-UN-sanctioned US drone strikes inside Pakistan’s tribal belt.
Eighty percent of NATO supplies are transported to war-ravaged Afghanistan through Pakistan.
The supply line has become increasingly vulnerable to militant attacks in recent months.
—-Agencies