Breaking on The Blaze: ‘Suicide Attack?’: Afghan Truck Explodes On Runway as Defense Sec. Plane Lands

•Truck drives at high speed onto British airfield runway and explodes as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was landing for surprise trip

•Panetta not injured
•Some outlets reporting it was a suicide attack and the man driving was an Afghan national employed on the base

WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The Pentagon says an Afghan drove an apparently stolen vehicle onto the ramp area of a British airfield in southern Afghanistan and into a ditch, where it exploded in flames, about the same time U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s aircraft was landing.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. John Kirby, said no one in Panetta’s party was injured.

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