Oil tankers torched in NW Pakistan

A number of oil tankers were torched overnight in the suburbs of Peshawar, a main city in northwest Pakistan, local TV channels reported on Friday.

The fire, which was extinguished on Friday morning, partially damaged an undisclosed number of oil tankers belonging to a private oil trucking company.

Police in the capital city of the Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province claimed that the tankers used to supply oil illegally and were torched on purpose, the report said.

During June at least 60 NATO supplying container trucks were burned down to ashes near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. In another two separate terrorist incidents a NATO supplying container and two oil tankers were partially damaged in terrorist incidents in the southwest Balochistan province.

Source: Xinhua