Quetta, Pakistan (ANTARA News/AFP) - Gunmen on motorbikes in southwestern Pakistan on Monday set ablaze at least 19 oil tankers carrying fuel for US-led NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said.

The gunmen fired at the tankers as they were waiting for a police escort on the main highway at Kolpur village, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, police official Ismail Kurd said. (*)