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Pakistan militants torch NATO supply trucks: police
AFP - Sunday, December 7
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - - Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn raid on a NATO terminal in Pakistan on Sunday, torching 65 trucks carrying supplies for troops in Afghanistan and killing a guard, police said.
Around 250 armed militants surrounded the terminal outside the northwestern city of Peshawar and disarmed about a dozen security guards before dousing the trucks in petrol and setting them alight, they said.
"They stormed the main terminal and set ablaze each and every truck parked there," one police official said.
One of the guards was shot and killed during the incident, senior police officer Abdul Qadir Qamar told AFP.
He said the trucks were loaded with supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
The insurgents, who had stolen the petrol from a nearby gas station, fled when police arrived at the scene, Qamar added.
The attack came less than a week after Taliban militants destroyed a dozen trucks in Peshawar containing supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing two people in the process.
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