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| At least 90 people have been killed after Nato air strike blew up a fuel tanker hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, officials say. | |
| Nato confirmed to the BBC that the airstrike happened in Kunduz province on the main road to Baghlan. | |
| The governor of Kunduz told the BBC at least two tanker which were full of jet fuel had been hijacked. | |
| He said senior Taliban commanders were killed. Witnesses said villagers scavenging for fuel also died. | |
| District police chief Basharyar Parwani told AFP news agency that Taliban insurgents tried to drive away a tanker that they hijacked on a highway. | |
| "The fuel tanker got stuck in the river. There were local civilians with them as well. The Taliban were bombed," Mr Parwani said. | "The fuel tanker got stuck in the river. There were local civilians with them as well. The Taliban were bombed," Mr Parwani said. |
| One of the drivers of the tankers told the BBC that two of his colleagues had been beheaded when the Taliban carried out the hijacking. | |
| Kunduz province Governor Mohammad Omar said most of the dead were Taliban fighters, although other sources says many villagers had been killed while collecting fuel from the tankers. | |
| Seriously burned people are crowding a hospital in Kunduz, AFP reported. | Seriously burned people are crowding a hospital in Kunduz, AFP reported. |
| Rush for fuel | |
| Witness Mohammad Daud, 32, told AFP that the militants had been trying to transport the tankers across a river to villages in Angorbagh. | |
| "They managed to take one of the tankers over the river. The second got stuck so they told villagers to come and take the diesel," he said. | |
| "Villagers rushed to the fuel tanker with any available container that they had, including water buckets and pots for cooking oil. | |
| "There were 10 to 15 Taliban on top of the tanker. This was when they were bombed. Everyone around the fuel tanker died." | |
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