8 tankers supplying oil to NATO forces torched

Eight tankers carrying fuel for the NATO forces in Afghanistan were torched here early Monday morning by Taliban attackers armed with petrol bombs.
Dozens of Taliban fighters launched the attack at Zakha Khel in the tribal district of Khyber before dawn, local administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir told according to a private TV channel.
The tankers had recently returned from supplying Nato troops in Afghanistan, where around 126,000 foreign troops are trying to help the Western-backed government put down a nearly nine-year Taliban insurgency.
"They hurled petrol bombs, then lobbed rockets and destroyed eight oil tankers," Wazir said.
The tankers were on their return journey to Karachi after delivering the fuel, he said.
There were no casualties in the attack because there were no drivers or passengers in the tankers at the time, another official, Rehan Gul Khattak, said.
"There were eight oil tankers parked at the terminal and all were gutted," Khattak said. The attack was launched by Taliban militants, he added.