•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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