Driver killed, 4 NATO oil tankers torched in

16 Mar, 2011

According to the police, unidentified gun men intercepted four Kandhar-bound oil tankers carrying fuel for ISAF forces stationed in Afghanistan and opened indiscriminate fire. Resultantly, the driver of an oil tanker identified as Zakir Mehmood Afridi and cleaner Baz Mohammad Afridi suffered bullet wounds.The former died on way to Quetta while they were being shifted to civil hospital in the provincial capital.

Later, the armed assailants set tankers on fire and fled. Police, soon after the incident reached the site and threw cordoned around the crime scene.Police have registered a case and started search for the culprits.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011

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