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QUETTA: Up to 20 trucks were ablaze after a rocket attack Thursday on a Nato trucking terminal in Quetta, officials said.
A number of oil tankers and goods trucks were parked in the temporary terminal after Pakistan shut down supply lines for troops in Afghanistan in anger at a deadly Nato cross-border air strike which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Senior police official Malik Arshad told AFP that unknown gunmen fired bullets and a rocket at the Nato oil tankers and the ensuing blaze engulfed 15 to 20 vehicles.
“We do not know about any casualties yet because the blaze is so huge,” Arshad said.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack but the Taliban have in the past said they carried out similar attacks to disrupt...
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