QUETTA, Dec 15: Gunmen stole oil from a Nato tanker after locking up security personnel in a room of the Levies Force’s station in Kosak Top area of Qila Abdullah district late on Wednesday night.

Officials told Dawn that the tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan was parked at the station.

“About 35 to 40 armed men entered the place, locked up the Levies personnel in a room, shifted oil to another tanker and fled,” Chaman’s Assistant Commissioner Ahmed Ali Siddiqui told reporters.

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