Blasts destroy Nato tankers, several shops in Khyber


Suspected Taliban militants planted bombs in northwest Pakistan that destroyed two tankers supplying fuel to Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said Friday. The incident took place in northwest Pakistans Khyber tribal region. A convoy of seven tankers was on its way to Afghanistan when one of the tankers blew up and caught fire, killing a fruit vendor and burning at least 50 shops in a nearby market, local government official Rehan Gul Khattak said. He said another

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