Suicide attack kills 5 Chinese nationals in Pakistan

Published March 26th, 2024 - 10:00 GMT
Pakistan
A policeman stands guard at the site of a bomb blast, that killed one and injured nine people, a day after in Karachi on May 17, 2022. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP)

ALBAWABA - A suicide bomber hit a vehicle carrying five Chinese nationals in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing them all, authorities said.

"Five Chinese and their local driver were killed in the attack," Muhammad Ali Gandapur, a senior Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police official, told AFP.

He stated that the Chinese nationals were traveling from a hydroelectric dam construction site to Islamabad when the incident occurred near Besham.

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