Afghan and NATO officials say that Taliban insurgents in the northern Kunduz province were driving two hijacked fuel trucks to an unknown destination when fighter planes located them on a river bank and bombed them.
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"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation, " said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
If it had been available when the Kaduna river burst its banks last week, driving 5, 000 people from their homes, the government could swiftly have identified the worst-affected areas.