QUETTA, Sept 13: At least eight containers and oil tankers carrying supplies for US-led Nato forces in Afghanistan were set ablaze when armed men fired rockets on the convoy in Surab area of Kalat district, about 200 kilometres south of here, on Friday.

The convoy of containers and oil tankers carrying goods and fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan was going to the border town of Chaman from Karachi when it came under attack in Surab area of Kalat where the drivers had parked their vehicles at a roadside restaurant on the National Highway.

A senior police official said that the assailants fired rockets on the convoy and the containers and tankers caught fire and were gutted.

“It was a pre-dawn attack carried out by around a dozen armed men in Hajika ara of Surab,” said Yousuf Reiki.

He said that one driver was killed in the attack. He was identified as Samiullah, but other drivers and helpers were unhurt. The attackers managed to escape.