A bomb destroyed a pickup truck at a petrol pump in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing one person and wounding 12 others, police said.

A bomb destroyed a pickup truck at a petrol pump in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing one person and wounding 12 others, police said.

The explosion took place in the Naseerabad district of Baluchistan province, some 800 kilometers southwest of the main city of Quetta.

The province borders Iran and Afghanistan and is rife with separatist and Islamist militants and plagued by sectarian bloodshed.

"A pickup was waiting in a queue for its turn to fill petrol at a pump when suddenly a bomb exploded in it," local police official Jan Muhammad told AFP.
"There is at least one death and 12 injured, six of whom are in critical condition," Muhammad added.

It was not clear why the truck was carrying a bomb and no group has come forward to claim responsibility.