An oil tanker was set ablaze on Saturday after a bomb explosion, killing at least 15 people in Pakistan

An oil tanker was set ablaze on Saturday after a bomb explosion, killing at least 15 people on the Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicle near a Pakistani border town.

Local administration official said the victims were killed when they gathered to collect oil leaking from the tanker.
"The oil tanker caught fire after a blast caused by a small bomb before dawn," he said. "Villagers from nearby houses rushed and started collecting oil coming out of the destroyed tanker after the fire had been extinguished," Shafeerullah Wazir said.

"Suddenly the fire erupted again and at least 15 people including five young boys who had been collecting oil in their buckets were burnt to death," he added.
The incident took place in the northwestern tribal region of Khyber.

Earlier, 11 other NATO supply vehicles, "most of them oil tankers" were destroyed in nearby Torkham town, another administration official, Iqbal Khattak, said.

"The vehicles caught fire after a blast in one of the tankers around midnight last night," he said, adding that the blast was apparently caused by a remote-controlled device planted under one of the vehicles.
"There were no casualties," Khattak told AFP news agency.