400 Fuel Trucks Set Ablaze in Afghanistan: Police
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A massive fire destroyed more than 400 vehicles carrying fuel and oil for US-led forces near Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, police said.
Afghan police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanekzai said Saturday that the blaze broke out overnight at a truck terminal near the town of Paghman, northwest of Kabul.
Most of the tankers burnt were used to carry fuel to US-led troops operating in Afghanistan.
The Taliban militant group claimed responsibility for the incident. The group also claimed that about 600 trucks and fuel tankers went up in the flames.
Taliban militants frequently attack trucks carrying supplies from Pakistan to the US-led forces deployed in Afghanistan. Militants in neighboring Pakistan have also destroyed hundreds of oil tankers and containers carrying fuel and other supplies to foreign forces in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001. The invasion was aimed at rooting out the Taliban, Press TV reported.
In the latest incident on June 19, 37 NATO trucks were blown up near the Torkham border crossing in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province.
