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  • 4
    Aug
    2011
    1:29pm, EDT

    Fuel tankers ablaze at depot in Afghanistan

    Dar Yasin / AP

    An Afghan carries his belongings as he passes burning fuel tankers in the outskirts of Kabul on Thursday, August 4.

    Dar Yasin / AP

    Afghan men carry a man after he collapsed when he tried to get his belongings out of his burning fuel tanker on the outskirts of Kabul on Thursday.

    According to the AP, police said around five fuel tankers carrying fuel for NATO and US forces in Afghanistan caught fire at the depot on the outskirts of Kabul. No casualties were reported, and it was not immediately clear what caused the fire. 

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  • 11
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    2011
    7:37am, EDT

    Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP - Getty Images

    Pedestrians run from the scene of a fire ravaging four fuel tankers on the Ibadan highway on May 11 in Lagos, Nigeria.

    Collision between fuel tankers leaves two dead

    Two people lost their lives following a collision between two tankers loaded with fuel that exploded, spreading the fire to two additional tankers driving along the Lagos-Ibadan highway, AFP reported.

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  • 27
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    2011
    6:47am, EDT

    Rahmat Gul / AP

    An Afghan policeman leads a fireman out of the scene of a burning NATO fuel tanker on the Jalalabad-Kabul highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on April 27. A bomb which was planted underneath a tanker carrying fuel for the NATO forces exploded. There were no casualties, police officials said.

    Fuel tanker blown up in Afghanistan

    View our slideshow: Low pay, big risks for fuel haulers in Afghan war.

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    all terrorists should be hunted and killed.they all have hurt and killed innocent people. 

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