Oil trucks attacked on Pakistan-Afghan border

The attack took place on Sunday night in Torkham, the maincrossing point on the Afghan-Pakistani border just west of theKhyber Pass, where about 100 oil tankers were parked in afield.

"We have reports of 60 to 70 injured but none in criticalcondition," said a senior official in Jamrud, the main town inthe Khyber tribal region.

The militants set off two bombs that started a fire andmany people who had gathered in the field were hurt when someof the tankers exploded, said the official, who declined to beidentified.

"There were huge flames. People began running when the firespread," said witness Waheed Afridi.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack, the second onoil tankers bound for Afghanistan in two weeks, but theofficial blamed militants.

Foreign forces fighting the Taliban in land-lockedAfghanistan get many of their supplies via Pakistan, wheremilitants have been stepping up attacks on supply lines.

Pakistan has been battling militancy in its lawless triballands on the Afghan border since U.S.-backed forces toppled theTaliban in Afghanistan weeks after the September 11, 2001,attacks on the United States.

(Reporting by Ibrahim Shinwari; Writing by Kamran Haider;Editing by Robert Birsel and Jerry Norton)