BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Insurgents attacked a convoy of fuel tankers escorted with police commando in north of Baghdad on Wednesday, setting 19 tankers ablaze and destroying three military vehicles, a police source told Xinhua.

    "Dozens of armed men ambushed a convoy of fuel tankers in Meshaheda area, some 40 km north of Baghdad, and opened fire with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles, setting 19 tankers ablaze and damaging three police commando vehicles," Captain Ahmed Abdullah from Baghdad police said.

    Fierce fighting broke out between the attackers and US-Iraqi troops which rushed to the area, he said.

    The convoy bounding to Baghdad came from the refinery town of Baiji, some 200 km north of the capital. Enditem