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| Trucks bound for Afghanistan blown up in Chaman |
| 2008-01-22 |
| Suspected militants in Chaman blew up three trucks carrying provisions for coalition forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, in the latest of several attacks on a key supply line, police said on Monday, AP reported. One of the drivers was slightly hurt in the overnight blasts while two fuel tankers and a rig carrying a shipping container were completely destroyed, local police said. Allied commanders in Afghanistan say that about 40 percent of their logistic supplies enter the landlocked country via Pakistan. Since there is no rail link between the two neighboring nations, all cargo arriving overland from PakistanÂ’s main port of Karachi is trucked into Afghanistan. Militants have made sporadic attempts in the past to disrupt the supply lines by attacking convoys. In a contrary report, according to APP, Chaman SHO Gul Muhammad said on Monday that two people were injured here when three empty oil tankers were blown up late on Sunday night. The agency reported that the blasts took place at a local hotel, where more than two dozen oil tankers, most of them returning from Kandahar, were parked. The first explosion tore apart one of the empty oil tankers, and a second explosion followed minutes later, destroying another. A police party headed by SHO Gul Muhammad arrived on the scene and found an explosive device attached to another oil tanker. The SHO called in the bomb disposal squad but the bomb detonated, destroying the third tanker, before the squad arrived from Pishin, APP said. |
| Posted by:Fred |