Over five dozen US NATO ISAF provision trucks and armored vehicles destined for western troops in Afghanistan stand smoldering after the attack Photo: EPA (Photo taken from The Telegraph)Taliban Raids Nato Convoys For Second Night
-- The Telegraph
-- The Telegraph
Pakistani Taliban fighters attacked Nato supply routes for a second consecutive night, torching 50 containers needed to supply troops in Afghanistan during an audacious raid near Peshawar.
The attack came barely 24 hours after 200 militants destroyed more than 100 lorries in a Nato base barely a mile away. The trucks are needed to ferry vital equipment and supplies through the perilous Khyber Pass - the narrow mountain trail leading from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
"The militants came just past midnight, firing in the air, sprinkled petrol on containers and then set them on fire," said Mohammad Zaman, a security guard at the site quoted by Reuters.
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