15 people killed in NATO fuel tanker explosion in Pakistan
Sunday, May 22, 2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Militants in northwest Pakistan blew up a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Saturday, and a secondary explosion killed 15 people as a group gathered to try to siphon off some of its fuel. Another bombing damaged 14 NATO tankers in a nearby border town, but no one was hurt.
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