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LANDI KOTAL, Oct 30: A man was injured when a pick-up carrying smuggled petrol caught fire in Bara here on Thursday.
The non-custom-paid double cabin pick-up carrying 96 cans of Iranian petrol, caught fire when the driver was unloading the cans at a dry stream in Kareegar Garhi near Bara.
About 200 more petrol cans were lying on the ground there when the fire broke out as a canister fell from the pick- up.
Driver Sher Afzal sustained burns, while the vehicle was completely destroyed. The fire also burnt 296 cans of petrol. The injured was shifted to Dogra hospital for treatment.
