HUB, Feb 13: Lasbela police have impounded about 40 oil tankers, and arrested their drivers and cleaners near Luck Badock, some 35km from here, the other day.

Sources said the arrested people belonged to two different groups of oil tankers union called Yousuf Shahwani and Aziz Shahwani groups, which had developed a row over the distribution of oil to different parts of Makran.

The police arrested them when the groups were about to fight with each other.

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