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Pakistan Taliban fire rockets at trucks carrying supplies for Western forces
Pakistani trucks taking supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan came under attack from Taliban militants on Wednesday, a government official said.
- Agencies
- Published: 13:56 December 17, 2008
Jamrud: Pakistani trucks taking supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan came under attack from Taliban militants on Wednesday, a government official said.
Militants fired two rocket-propelled grenades at a convoy of more than 150 trucks as it set off from a supply staging area on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar.
"One of the rockets fell in a parking lot while another hit a nearby house and wounded a woman," said government official Fida Mohammad Bangash in Jamrud, the main town in Khyber.
"The convoy appears to have been the target but they missed," he said, adding the trucks continued on their way through the pass to the border at Torkham.
The ambush was the latest in a string of attacks aimed at choking off supplies being trucked through the Khyber Pass from Pakistan's main port to Western forces battling the Taliban in landlocked Afghanistan.
About 170 trucks took supplies through the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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