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4 Gasoline Tankers Hijacked Near Baghdad
For bombs? Or just market resale?Hilla, Jul 3, (VOI)- Unknown gunmen took by force four oil tanker trucks that were carrying gasoline to the Iraqi capital Baghdad on the highway north of Hilla, a police source said on Tuesday. "Unknown gunmen intercepted, today, four oil trucks that were carrying gasoline on the highway linking Hilla to Baghdad and took them towards al-Sayafiyah area in Latifiyah district," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source, who declined to give any information about the fate of the trucks' drivers, said, "police forces are launching a campaign in search of the trucks." Latifiya district is one of the most dangerous areas just south of Baghdad where al-Qaeda-linked armed groups are active. Armed groups sometimes detonate oil trucks crammed with explosives to cause high amounts of human casualties. Hilla, capital city of Babel province, is 100 km south of Baghdad. Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-04 |
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