China Presses Pakistan to 'Eliminate Security Risks' to Its Nationals After Deadly Attack

Volunteers carry a casket of a Chinese national, who was killed in the suicide bombing, at a hospital in Basham, in Shangla district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, March 26, 2024. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi meets with Chinese investigators and diplomats at Beijing’s embassy in Islamabad, March 29, 2024, in this Pakistan state TV screen grab. FILE - China's and Pakitan's flags are seen on a bridge over the River Indus, at the site of the Dasu hydropower project, in Kohistan district, Kyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near Dasu, Pakistan, Oct. 6, 2023.

China joined a Pakistan probe Friday into the killing of five of its nationals in a suicide car bombing. That attack has led to the suspension of work on a multibillion-dollar Chinese-funded hydropower project.