PESHAWAR: Militants on Saturday destroyed 12 parked trucks laden with supplies for NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan during a heavy battle with police, an official said.
Fighters armed with rockets and petrol bombs besieged the Farhad terminal on the edge of the northwest city Peshawar, police said, the latest in a series of strikes targeting goods bound for foreign forces across the border.
"There were no casualties in the attack, but the fire gutted 12 trucks loaded with NATO supplies," local police station chief Fazal Wahid told a foreign news agency.
"We had to call reinforcement s from other police stations as Taliban outnumbered the local force and were heavily armed," Wahid said.
The attack came one day after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed mosque during prayers in Jamrud, near Peshawar, leaving around 50 dead and scores wounded in one of the bloodiest recent attacks.
Local administration official Syed Ahmed Jan said a night curfew was imposed in Mohmand before the launch of the ground operation. |
