| A pickup truck loaded with extra fuel crashed into the perimeter wall of the British Embassy on Monday night, exploding in flames in what one witness said appeared to be a suicide attack. Police initially said the crash appeared to be an accident, in which the truck driver was killed but no one else was hurt. But later the city's security chief said the back of the vehicle was loaded with gallons of extra fuel. The director of security in Tehran's governor's office, Ali Ta'ala, did not say whether the incident was an attack on the embassy. He identified the driver as a 35-year-old employee in the Energy Ministry. The pickup truck left the main road and went through openings in metal barriers on either side of a bus lane that passes in front of the embassy wall. It hit the wall, a yard away from the main gate, and exploded. |