ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- At least 27 tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan were destroyed at a fuel station in southern Pakistan, an official said Friday.
Witnesses said up to 15 attackers, armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles, fired at the tankers to frighten away the drivers before setting the trucks on fire, the BBC reported.
Militants were suspected but no one had claimed responsibility for the vehicles' destruction in Shikarpur in Sindh province, officials said.
Shikarpur's police chief, Abdul Hameed Khosa, said the tankers were parked at a fuel station when the attack occurred. They had been filled in Karachi.
It was unclear whether the attack was linked to a NATO airstrike Thursday at a border post in Khurram Agency along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in which three Pakistani troops died, the BBC said.
