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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – At small 15 people hit been killed in an lubricator soldier brightness after a assail exploded on the Afghanistan-bound NATO container nearby a Asiatic border town, according to officials.

The victims had concentrated to collect lubricator unseaworthy from the soldier nearby Landi Kotal municipality in the north tribal location of Khyber, local brass authorised Shafeerullah Wazir said on Saturday.

"The lubricator soldier caught wind after a wind caused by a diminutive assail before dawn," he said. "Villagers from nearby houses hurried and started aggregation lubricator reaching out of the blasted soldier after the wind had been extinguished," he said.

"Suddenly the wind erupted again and at small 15 people including fivesome teen boys who had been aggregation lubricator in their buckets were burnt to death," he said.

Earlier, 11 other NATO cater vehicles, "most of them lubricator tankers" were blasted in nearby Torkham town, added brass official, Iqbal Khattak, said.

"The vehicles caught wind after a wind in digit of the tankers around midnight terminal night," he said, adding that the wind was ostensibly caused by a remote-controlled figure naturalised under digit of the vehicles.

"There were no casualties," Khattak told AFP.

Wazir confirmed the long attack, locution that a total of 12 NATO vehicles had been blasted in the digit incidents.

No group has claimed domain but the Taleban hit claimed much attacks in the past.

The attacks on NATO cater vehicles came after the Taleban bombed a US consulate convoy in Peshawar on Friday, ending digit person and wounding 11 others in the prototypal move on Americans in Pakistan since Osama containerful Laden's death.

A US embassy spokesman said digit US government employees were gently wounded in the rush-hour move in the vaporific north city, which runs into the tribal track that pedagogue has branded a orbicular office of Al-Qaeda.

The Asiatic Taleban swiftly claimed responsibility, threatening further attacks against Western targets in ring calls to foetoprotein and indicating that the wind was to avenge the May 2 ending of containerful Laden by US Navy SEALs.

"Our prototypal enemy is Pakistan, then the United States and after that, other NATO countries," said spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan on Friday.

The United States leads a NATO force of around 130,000 external personnel in Afghanistan that is disagreeable to place downbound a 10-year Taleban insurgency. Asiatic supplying and military support is considered alive to the struggle effort.

Most supplies and equipment required by external personnel in Afghanistan are shipped finished Pakistan.

Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants ofttimes start attacks crossways north Pakistan and the lawless tribal track on the Afghan border.

Under US push to fissure downbound on Islamist havens on the border, Pakistan has in the time digit years stepped up military dealings against largely homegrown militants in the tribal regions.

Washington says wiping out the militant danger in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal track is alive to winning the struggle against the Taleban in Afghanistan and defeating Al-Qaeda.

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