May 02, 2008	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 25, 1429

LANDI KOTAL, May 1: A bomb blast on Thursday morning damaged an oil tanker and injured a passerby woman in Sultankhel area, sources said.

The oil tanker was parked at a private parking lot in Takia Sultankhel on the main Peshawar-Torkhum highway when an explosive device, fitted to it by unidentified saboteurs, went off early in the morning. The explosion also caused fire at the tanker while a passerby woman was hit by shrapnel which caused her minor wounds.

Driver of the tanker managed to drive away the engine of the vehicle while the tanker filled with nearly forty thousand litres of oil was completely burnt.

Meanwhile, parents and relatives of the two victims of March 23 Torkhum tanker blasts have demanded compensation from the government.

Two young men Shah Mir and Khair Mohammad alias Karait lost their lives while trying to extinguish fire caused by a series of bomb blasts in oil tankers on March 23 near Torkhum border. More than hundred people were injured and forty two oil tankers were completely burnt in the fire which lasted for nearly two days.

In a written statement, relatives of the two deceased appealed to NWFP governor, additional secretary Fata and political administration of Khyber Agency to compensate them.

It is pertinent to mention here that no department dealing in providing compensation to victims of natural calamities and victims of bomb blasts exists in Fata Civil Secretariat.

More than twenty persons lost their lives in flashfloods in Landi Kotal on June 28 last year but none of their heirs received any compensation so far.