1.   They said a petrol tank truck was amid the pile-up but apparently escaped being ignited by the flames.

2.   Two other busloads carrying hostages left for the town of Pokoinoe, accompanied by a petrol tanker truck, the statement said.

3.   Nine people were killed and another two seriously injured Sunday when a petrol truck collided with a pick-up vehicle in eastern Thailand, local police said Sunday.

4.   The accident happened when the first in a line of seven Macedonian petrol trucks slowed and the tanker behind crashed into it, police said.

5.   The driver of a petrol tanker truck swerved across the road on the Gaza Strip and slammed head on into the patrol vehicle, they said.