Dera Murad Jamali: Gunmen shoot up NATO oil tanker

QUETTA: Gunmen in Dera Murad Jamali 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. The attack highlights the continuing dangers facing the US-led coalition as it winds down operations in Afghanistan with 51,000 combat troops due to pull out of the country by the year’s end. “Two gunmen riding a 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 attackers escaped the crime scene. Noor Muhammad Breach, a senior police official in the area, said the highway between Sindh and Balochistan remained closed for two hours. “Hundreds of vehicles were stuck on the highway,” he added.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 9^th, 2014.