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Five NATO oil tankers destroyed in Pakistan
PESHAWAR: At least five NATO oil tankers bound for Afghanistan caught fire on Friday after a bomb planted beneath one of them exploded, but there were no casualties, officials in Pakistan said.
"A remote-controlled device planted under one of the tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan went off, triggering a fire that engulfed four more tankers," local administration official Iqbal Khan Khattak said.
The tankers were parked in the Torkham area of the troubled Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast but the Taliban has said it carried out such attacks in the past.
The bombing follows twin suicide blasts on Friday that killed 80 people at a paramilitary police training centre in Shabqadar in northwest Pakistan, in what the Pakistani Taliban said was revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The main northwestern border crossing was closed to NATO supply vehicles for 11 days last September after a cross-border NATO helicopter assault killed two Pakistani soldiers.
PESHAWAR: At least five NATO oil tankers bound for Afghanistan caught fire on Friday after a bomb planted beneath one of them exploded, but there were no casualties, officials in Pakistan said.
"A remote-controlled device planted under one of the tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan went off, triggering a fire that engulfed four more tankers," local administration official Iqbal Khan Khattak said.
The tankers were parked in the Torkham area of the troubled Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast but the Taliban has said it carried out such attacks in the past.
The bombing follows twin suicide blasts on Friday that killed 80 people at a paramilitary police training centre in Shabqadar in northwest Pakistan, in what the Pakistani Taliban said was revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The main northwestern border crossing was closed to NATO supply vehicles for 11 days last September after a cross-border NATO helicopter assault killed two Pakistani soldiers.
