Friday, February 25, 2011

Leaves five dead in attack on NATO convoy in Pakistan

.- At least five people died when a convoy of tanker trucks carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan was attacked by a group of fighters in the city of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. Among the dead are several of the drivers of the tankers and support personnel, while authorities reported that at least 12 units were completely burned.

Relief agencies rushed to the scene, while firefighters took several hours to extinguish burning vehicles, local media reported. Tanker trucks Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are generally driven by local drivers and are accompanied by private security teams. Local authorities said that fighters attacked a NATO convoy drivers when they stopped to refuel on the Ring Road area, near Peshawar, capital of the province Pakhtunkhwa Khyber.

The attack occurred Friday morning on a terminal near Peshawar, according to local police, reported the Pakistani news channel GeoNews. Attacks on convoys of tanks and supply trucks for NATO troops in Afghanistan are common in southwestern and northwestern Pakistan, through which most of these supplies to elements of the Atlantic Alliance.

Supplies enter the Islamic country through the port of Karachi and are transported to the neighboring country through the Khyber Pass, in the northwest, or the border of Balochistan in the southwest.

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