At least 15 people were killed Saturday, May 21 near the Afghan-Pakistan border in the fire, caused by a bomb, a truck NATO. The victims were youths who had gathered to collect the leaking fuel tank near the town of Landi Kotal in the Frontier Province du Nord-Ouest, said an official of the local government.
"The tanker caught fire after an explosion caused by a small bomb," he said. "The villagers of nearby houses rushed to collect leaking gasoline truck damaged after the fire was under control," he added. "Suddenly, the fire resumed and at least 15 people, including five young boys, who collected the fuel in buckets, were fatally burned." According to another Pakistani official, eleven trucks and tanker trucks from NATO were destroyed Friday around midnight near Torkham (northwest).
The vehicles caught fire after the explosion caused one of them, it seems, by a bomb placed under his frame. No casualties have deplored. These 12 destruction have not been claimed, but authorities suspect the Taliban of being the authors. These attacks occurred in the aftermath of the attack against two cars in the U.S.
consulate in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan, which slightly wounded two Americans and killed a passerby. It was the first direct attack on the United States since the death of Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani Taliban insurgents who have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda in 2007 and lead since a very bloody campaign of bombings in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack to avenge the mastermind of the Sept.
11, killed on 2 May in the north by a helicopter-borne U.S. commandos. 
"The tanker caught fire after an explosion caused by a small bomb," he said. "The villagers of nearby houses rushed to collect leaking gasoline truck damaged after the fire was under control," he added. "Suddenly, the fire resumed and at least 15 people, including five young boys, who collected the fuel in buckets, were fatally burned." According to another Pakistani official, eleven trucks and tanker trucks from NATO were destroyed Friday around midnight near Torkham (northwest).
The vehicles caught fire after the explosion caused one of them, it seems, by a bomb placed under his frame. No casualties have deplored. These 12 destruction have not been claimed, but authorities suspect the Taliban of being the authors. These attacks occurred in the aftermath of the attack against two cars in the U.S.
consulate in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan, which slightly wounded two Americans and killed a passerby. It was the first direct attack on the United States since the death of Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani Taliban insurgents who have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda in 2007 and lead since a very bloody campaign of bombings in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack to avenge the mastermind of the Sept.
11, killed on 2 May in the north by a helicopter-borne U.S. commandos.
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