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India-Pakistan
Gunmen shoot up NATO oil tanker in southwest Pakistan
2014-06-09
Terrorists Gunmen in restive southwest Pakistan on Sunday fired bullets at an oil tanker carrying fuel bound for NATO troops in Afghanistan, setting the vehicle and a car ablaze, police said.

Sunday’s incident occurred around 200 kilometres (140 miles) southeast of Quetta — the capital of Baluchistan — a province rife with militancy, sectarian violence and ethnic insurgency.

“Two terrorists gunmen riding a cycle of violence motorcycle intercepted a NATO oil tanker in Dera Murad Jamali city and fired bullets at it,” local police official Ali Gohar Lehri told AFP.

“The tanker and a car close to it caught flames,” he added. “The driver and cleaner of the tanker and all passengers travelling in the car jumped out of their vehicles to save their lives.”

The terrorists attackers escaped the crime scene. Another police official confirmed the shooting.

“The main highway between southern Sindh and southwestern Baluchistan province remained closed for around two hours because of the burning vehicles,” Noor Muhammad Breach, a senior police official in the area, told AFP. “Hundreds of vehicles were stuck on the highway."

Last month, Pakistani troops foiled an attack on a NATO supply terminal in the northwest, killing one terrorist attacker and forcing others to flee.
Posted by:Steve White

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