PESHAWAR: Suspected militants attacked at a terminal at Grand Trunk Road and torched five oil tankers supplying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan in the early hours of Thursday, police said.
As a result of intense firing a security guard was wounded, while two others narrowly escaped. They said that several attackers entered the Pakistan Oil Terminal and opened fire.
The guards also said that the attackers had come through a broken boundary wall from the rear side. They said four explosions were heard and later the attackers opened indiscriminate firing at the oil tankers.
A fire brigade official said that 10 fire tenders of city fire station, Cantonment Board Peshawar and civil defence took part in the rescue operation but the tankers couldn’t be saved.
It was the second attack at the oil tankers in the past about two weeks. Many oil tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces to Afghanistan had been torched by suspected militants at the GT Road.
The police said a case against unidentified miscreants had been registered at the Chamkani Police Station.
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