JALALABAD/PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Taliban militants set afire two more oil tankers in Mashala Kamar and Abresham Tangi area on the Jalalabad-Kabul Highway in the eastern Laghman province Sunday afternoon.

Haji Saleh Mohammad Niazai, police chief of Qarghayee district of Laghman province, told Pajhwok Afghan News the vehicles were on way to Kabul to carry fuel to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) when came under attack from Taliban this afternoon. He said two drivers suffered injuries.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said four fuel tankers were blown up on the highway. He said casualties were inflicted on the security personnel guarding the convoy.

Another oil tanker was burnt on the Kunduz-Baghlan Highway while supplying fuel to the NATO troops in the northern zone.  

Police chief of Baghlan province Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kabeer Andarabi told this news agency that militants fired a rocket at the tanker in Char Shanba Teepa area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district of the province. He said driver of tanker managed to escaped the attack.

An eyewitness Sultan Mohammad said two tankers were torched that followed a clash between security personnel and Taliban fighters.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said they burnt three tankers supplying fuel to foreign troops. He did not give information about the casualties.

The two attacks on NATO fuel supply convoys in Laghman and Kunduz were the second and third in a single day. Three fuel tankers were sat afire in Darunta area of the eastern Nangarhar province this morning.

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