ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- NATO supply trucks bound for Afghanistan were torched Wednesday, this time near Quetta in western Pakistan in which at least one person died, officials said.
Police said three carloads of gunmen fired at the tankers in a parking lot and then burned them, The New York Times reported.
Witnesses and initial reports indicated "some terrorists came on vehicles a few minutes before morning prayer and started firing and then burned some of the tankers," Haid Shakeel, deputy inspector general of Quetta police, said.
About 40 tankers were at the terminal, and about half were saved, Shakeel said.
Other media reports indicate 10 tankers were set on fire.
Soon after the attacks, Taliban militants claimed responsibility, the Times and GEO News reported.
Pakistan closed the crossing at Torkham last week to protest NATO helicopter strikes on the Pakistan side of the border region, including an assault in which three Pakistani soldiers died. A second crossing near Quetta has remained open.
Pakistani officials said a small bomb damaged a truck in northwestern Pakistan Tuesday as it was carrying oil to Afghanistan, GEO News said. The bomb was beneath a tanker parked in a lot with more than 100 other trucks waiting to cross into Afghanistan, said Wajid Khan, a local official in the Khyber tribal region where the border crossing is located.
