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Taliban kill 2 truck drivers, torch 21 US vehicles in Peshawar

* NATO shrugs off attack on supply convoy

PESHAWAR/BRUSSELS: Suspected Taliban on Monday destroyed 21 trucks in Peshawar containing supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing two drivers, police said. Official sources told Daily Times that around 25 Taliban entered the Al Faisal Container Terminal on the Ring Road from the Landi Akhund Mohammad/Ahmed Khel side after breaking the terminal wall, setting the vehicles on fire and killing two drivers and injuring two others. Driver Hakim Khan, a resident of Mianwali, and Sadiq, a resident of Landikotal, who were sleeping in a truck (Lasbela TLE-280) were killed while Sahib Khan and Hassan Muhammad sustained injuries in the attack. The Taliban burned at least 21 vehicles including an armoured personnel carrier (APC), 18 trucks and two cranes. Cantonment Superintendent of Police Abdul Qadir told Daily Times that there were around 15 assailants. He put the number of damaged vehicles at 12. Qadir warned terminal owners to arrange lights, walls and guards otherwise they would close the terminals. Suspected Taliban also tried to blow up the Shah Qabool police station early on Monday. Two bombs planted near the police station exploded in the early hours of Monday injuring two civilians. The blast also damaged three houses and shops in the area. Shah Qabool Station House Officer Sattar Khattak said that the bombs were locally-made devices weighing around two kilogrammes. Meanwhile, a rocket fired from an unknown location landed on a motor workshop on the PAF Road near the Ring Road. Last Wednesday, a bomb planted by suspected Taliban in another terminal compound on Ring Road exploded. No casualties were reported.

Officials: Meanwhile, NATO shrugged off the attack on the convoy transporting supplies for its troops in Afghanistan, saying that the strike on a terminal in Pakistan had not hurt the alliance’s operation there, AFP reported. “The attacks that have taken place on NATO supplies, while of concern, have not been of strategic significance. They have not affected the operation in any substantial way,” spokesman James Appathurai said. manzoor ali shah/afp

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