Team Of Chinese Engineers Targeted By Suicide Bomber In Pakistan
Separatist Islamic insurgents in Pakistan appear to be engaging in an all-out war with the government and its Chinese partners, who are building Belt and Road Initiative projects in the south Asian country. Beijing has been investing billions in Pakistan, but some regions are very high-risk in terms of the security situation.
After a string of attacks on locations hosting major Chinese infrastructure projects, there’s been a fresh suicide attack that killed five Chinese nationals on Tuesday. A Pakistani driver was also killed when a suicide attacker crashed his explosive-laden vehicle into the group’s convoy, in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Chinese nationals were engineers on their way from the capital of Islamabad to Dasu, which is the location of a new hydroelectric dam being constructed by a Chinese company.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and other similar ethnic separatist groups are an immediate suspect but no group has yet claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.
