Five Chinese nationals killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan: Police
Al Jazeera
Suicide bomber rams explosives-laden vehicle into convoy of Chinese engineers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Five Chinese nationals have been killed in an explosion when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan, says a top police officer.
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives laden vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers which was on its way from Islamabad to their camp in Dasu in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Mohammad Ali Gandapur, the regional police chief, said on Tuesday.
“Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed in the attack,” Gandapur said.
Islamabad is Beijing’s closest regional ally, but the security of Chinese workers has long been of concern in Pakistan.
Dasu is the site of a major hydroelectric dam, under construction by the China Gezhouba Group Company, and the area has been attacked in the past. A blast on a bus had killed 13 people, including nine Chinese nationals, in 2021.
