Fighters have blown up an oil train in Baghdad and US warplanes have bombarded an Iraqi village near the Syrian border. Thursday's hit on the train carrying petroleum products was the first such attack in Iraq, railway spokesman Jawad al-Kharsan said. The explosion ignited a massive blaze extending down the railway line in southern Baghdad and killed an Iraqi soldier. Four others, including a civilian, were injured in the blast. The five-man train crew, however, escaped unhurt, railway officials said. The seven-tanker convoy was attacked less than a kilometre away from the Dura oil refinery. An Interior Ministry official said the train struck a bomb on the line, but railway workers said the explosion could also have been caused by a rocket-propelled grenade.