People gather around a truck, carrying supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan, that was torched by miscreants in an attack on a Nato supply terminal and a Police check post. - APP photo

QUETTA Two dozen armed men stormed a container terminal near Chaman on Tuesday morning, killed two security personnel and torched six vehicles carrying supplies for Nato forces in Afghanistan.

Sources said that before raiding the terminal, they attacked a police checkpost, killing a police constable and injuring three others. They took away weapons and wireless sets.

After overpowering police personnel, the attackers entered the terminal and killed the security in charge.

The fire was, however, put out by drivers and other people near the terminal.

'Military vehicles, armoured personnel carriers and other Nato supplies ... were not damaged,' sources said, adding attackers escaped under the cover of firing.

'They were talking in an Afghan dialect of Pushto,' one of the injured policemen, Fazal Karim, told his superiors.

The injured policemen are being treated in the Civil Hospital in Chaman.

The dead policeman was identified as head constable Khuda-i-Dad and the security in charge as Awal Habib.

'It is too early to say who is involved in the attack,' Sardar Hassan Musakhel, the DPO of Qila Abdullah, which borders Afghanistan, said.

He said that security agencies were raiding various places for arresting the attackers.