MIRAMSHAH, Oct 4: The Taliban claimed responsibility on Monday for two attacks on Afghan-bound Nato supply convoys in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched in three days – and vowed more to come.

Three people were killed when about 20 Nato oil tankers were set ablaze by attackers armed with Molotov cocktails near Islamabad, which the Taliban said was to avenge US drone attacks and halt the supply route through Pakistan.

Television pictures of the pre-dawn arson attack showed towers of flame springing from the trucks, which were filling up just outside Islamabad en route to Afghanistan. Police said around a dozen attackers fled the scene.

In a similar incident on Friday, heavily armed gunmen set ablaze more than two dozen trucks and tankers at Shikarpur in Sindh.

“We accept responsibility for the attacks on the Nato supply trucks and tankers,” Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq said.—AFP