ATTOCK: An oil tanker, fourth in a week, carrying 50 litres of fuel overturned near Attock at Fateh Jang Road on Sunday.
Hundreds of litre fuel spilled on the road, however; no causalities were reported. Police and rescue teams arrived at the spot after the accident and sealed the area. The tanker driver and conductor were also arrested. The fuel was then shifted to a second tanker.
This is the fourth such incident of tanker overturning in the country in a week.
On Saturday, an oil tanker that was going from Karachi to Punjab turned turtle on the National Highway near Qazi Ahmed in Nawabshah and caught fire, however; timely measures did not cause any major incident.
Last Sunday, a tanker overturned on the main highway from Karachi to Lahore, while carrying some 40,000 litres of fuel. It exploded minutes later as people from a nearby village gathered to scavenge for fuel, despite warnings by the driver as well as motorway police to stay away. The accident took place in Ahmedpur Sharqia tehsil near Bahawalpur.
